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...have each a tendency to dip, and to bury their oars too deep in the first part of the stroke. F. Le Moyne goes too far back, and does not sit up well at the finish. Through the boat, and particularly in the forward part, the finish is poor, rather worse than the beginning; there is a tendency to sliver, to row the last part of the stroke with the blade only partly covered, and to turn the oar before it is fairly out of the water; the whole finish is slovenly. This fault seems to be the worst...
When undergraduates remind us of "the generally acknowledged value of mathematics in mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful...
...RATHER an excited article appeared in the Advocate of February 16 regarding the prices we pay for our rooms in Cambridge. It seems hardly likely that, if the writer of that article had reflected calmly on the subject, he would have arrived at the extreme conclusions to which the Advocate has given publicity. There are rooms in Cambridge of all sizes, positions, and prices, - a variety, we should have supposed, sufficient to please the most fastidious. If the price of a room is three hundred dollars, and an applicant finds it exorbitant, the College kindly offers him a pleasant...
...second point is of rather more importance. By law, voting for Overseers is allowed only in person in Cambridge. Of course only a small portion can be here on Commencement Day, and by this provision the majority are deprived of their suffrage. And there is no need of this, for votes could be received by proxy, and thus all who cared to have a voice in the management of the College could do so. Usually there is very little rivalry for the office of Overseers, and the result of the election is satisfactory to everybody. Still there may come...
...that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which is largely taken by Seniors, - all of these facts are reasons enough why the marks should not be kept secret; and if the instructor has any scruples about the matter, the Faculty should overcome them, in order that on their own authority the marks...