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...position taken by the faculty in deciding not to forbid our nine's practice with professional ball players, seems to give general satisfaction to the college. As a concession to athletics, or rather a refusal to interfere with them, the faculty's action is very acceptable to all, but we are inclined to think that many will question the wisdom of the concession of this particular point. The evils which result from constant familiarity with the professional aspect of base ball have become so evident of late that it was no surprise to us when the movement against practice with...
Yale, however, refuses to enter upon the agreement; prompted not, we hope, although it looks very much that way, by jealousy of Harvard as the originator of the movement, but rather by good and sufficient reasons known to herself alone. Of course no particular results will come from this disagreement between Harvard and Yale except that Harvard will get what practice she can in base-ball from neighboring amateur nines, like the Beacons and Hyde Parks, and Yale will continue to struggle after invincibility through practice with professionals; the contests between the two colleges will continue as before...
...crews of Burch and Storrow being disinclined to row again, Belshaw replaced Howe, and J. D. Sherwood, Clarke and Biddle replaced H. Sherwood, Jones and Blodgett. It will be seen that Burch's crew was much strengthened by these changes, and as it proved, rather too much so, for they had not rowed a dozen strokes in the second trial before Clarke broke his oar short off and Gilman displaced his seat. This, of course, put them out of the race, and was doubly unfortunate since when the mishap occurred they had a short lead over the other two crews...
...states "that interest in the debates of the society increased during the past year. The subjects for debate chosen during the last half year, 'Woman Suffrage,' 'Prohibition,' 'Free Trade,' 'Chinese Immigration' and 'Webster's 7th of March Speech,' show the marked preference of the union for great political questions rather than for great social, moral or religious ones." The primary object of this society is to give its members experience in the art of debate by the discussion of questions of public interest. The advantages of being connected with such a society as this are well understood by every...
...incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope of his subject, and is forced to admit to himself that he is but like "a little child idly counting the sands on the shore of a vast, unexplored sea of knowledge." We are sometimes forced to smile in a rather conceited manner, while reviewing the long list of studies offered by our elective system, when we read in some exchange the rejoicings of an editor over "the advancement in the scope of the curriculum" at his particular college, and with no little pride congratulate ourselves that Harvard University has approached...