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...over five months since the university crew went into strict training. The men have done hard, faithful work ever since, and have now increased it on account of the recent changes. Several eight-to-ten mile rows were taken in the last few days in order to get the crews well "shaken" together. It is hoped that the new stroke oarsman will find little difficulty in again acquiring the old Harvard stroke, after rowing a different one for two months. All accounts from Yale seem to indicate that the New Haven crew is an unusually good one and that...
...Princetonian and many other college papers thought that Harvard, as represented by the Advocate and CRIMSON, had right and the better argument on their side in the recent controversy over the Yale-Harvard, '87, base-ball games...
Emmanuel college, one of the numerous colleges which go to make up the University of Cambridge, will, about the middle of next month, celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of its foundation. This event will, of course, be of much less importance than the recent celebration at Edinburgh, but it is, nevertheless, one in which Harvard is particularly interested. For it was at Emmanuel that John Harvard obtained his college education, and from which he came direct to America to preach to the Puritan colonists. It was also the alma mater of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College...
There appeared in a recent issue of one of the prominent magazines the following statement : "We are well aware of the fact that there are many men who get learning at college without culture, and that there are many men outside of the colleges who have, with comparatively little accurate learning, a great deal of valuable culture." Without pretending to urge the "sweetness and light" plea, an intimate relation with the short-comings of college life leads us to inquire into the reasons of the fact above quoted. Strange and incredible as it may seem, there are men in good...
...American Queen reprints a poem from a recent number of the Advocate...