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...nation is wisely obeyed unless we see clearly something better. Among the best things the thought of duty requires especial study. Duty, Necessity, and Pleasure must be contrasted as motives. Our duty always shows itself to us as the best thing, yet one which we have power to reject. There are many acts to which the sense of duty has no application, but where pleasure may be allowed free play. Moreover the same thing which duty would command is done better if we do it from love. But duty is needed to keep us true, till our loves are surely...
...entries. The tandem safety handicap will not be run unless there are four teams entered. Any race in which the number of entries shall warrant it will be run in heats. Entrance fee, $1.00 for each event. Entries close Saturday, May 16, at 12 p. m. The right to reject any or all entries is reserved. Entry must be sent with fees, to F. L. Olmsted, Jr., 13 Wadsworth House, Cambridge, Mass...
Entries must be made to W. W. Parker, Secretary Y. A. A. on or before March 12. An entrance fee of fifty cents will be charged for each man in each event and the right to reject any entry will be rigidly observed. This is to guard against false entries...
...this be true, while I doubt it, it ought to be stopped. Of course of two equally good oars it is natural to prefer your fellow club or society mate to an "outsider." But if the "outsider" outclasses your friend as an oar it is a college crime to reject him. Still with all I have heard of the methods of selecting crews at Cambridge I have no fear of the crew. Indeed "the finest crew Harvard ever put on the water" has become quite as familiar to us of late as have defeats...
...number of special students does not increase, the practice of the Faculty committee being to reject candidates not recommended for admission by their former teachers...