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...submit some explanation of the finances of the University Boat Club. For a series of years the system of expenses has been simply an arrangement of debts, so that the beginning of each year has of necessity presented a call for help to free the club from old obligations rather than make any provision for the wants of the new season. Beginning in 1874 with a debt of some $2,500, the club has been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under the unusual expense of two races, each requiring different...
...instead of a tirade, some estimates of their character that I have formed from men's books. I do not mean literary character; for to tell the readers of the Crimson that I have discovered a man's literary tastes by examining the books that he owns would be rather superfluous. But oftentimes one displays more of his character in his book-case than he has any idea of. First there is the book-case itself, by which we can estimate his sense of the aesthetic, the amount of his allowance, and by a careful examination of the corners...
...HOLLAND, writing in Scribner's, suggests that Yale and Harvard establish a course in politics. After three years of study of political economy, international and inter-state law, constitutional law and history, finance, and diplomacy (a rather ambiguous word), the graduate should go before an examining board at Washington to obtain a certificate of fitness for office. Armed with this certificate, he is to go before the people and take his chances for election; and even if he were not elected, the general culture of the community would be elevated by the presence of such a learned person. A knowledge...
SOMETIMES it is rather amusing to see one's self through the eyes of another. In the present instance the observer stands on the intellectual heights of the Kansas University, and condescendingly remarks...
...making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself up as champion of such an inane course as refusing college aid to such students as "drink, smoke, dance, or play billiards," we are forced to believe that the writer either has an eye to the paper's country subscription-list rather than to the convictions of his own conscience, or else possesses a fund of facile gullibility and eremitical unworldliness which is totally inconsistent with the reputation and position of the New York papers. While we have no desire to enter into an elaborate discussion on the wisdom of prohibiting...