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...record an improvement in the Harvard 'varsity crew is something which is a pleasure for every Harvard man who is following the crews on the Thames with any degree of critical interest. In the week just finished, the Harvard crew has not made rapid strides towards that perfection of stroke at which every crew aims, but slow though noticeable improvements are evident. Though the watermanship is still manifestly inferior to Yale's, it has improved markedly in a week...
Changes and improvements have been made in the courses to keep pace with the rapid growth of the school. The instruction will be both theoretical and practical and will consist of lectures and practical talks on thirteen different subjects and sixty-four courses in physical exercise...
...tendency of the authorities in Radcliffe to organize the college more and more closely upon Harvard lines seems to us very wise. This policy not only ensures rapid and safe expansion for Radcliffe, but it will also prevent the rise in future of troublesome questions in regard to co-education in Harvard...
...build a navy beyond the needs of ordinary official and police service is bad policy, because it would require a needless expense (a) for original cost; (b) for continual remodelling on account of rapid changes in naval architecture...
Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...