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...busy learning how to handle the oars and practising the body swing, There are two provisional crews now rowing, one composed of candidates from the School of Arts, the other from the School of Mines. The chief difficulty at first was in dipping the oars at the right angle. The regular crew will probably not be chosen until after the inter-class races, May 12, and the Harlem regatta, May 30, though a provisional crew will be chosen for these events. There are two candidates for the position of coxswain, both from the School of Arts...
...columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive use of a small class of men. The athletes...
...their poor preparation for college and are obliged to take a lower stand than their more fortunate fellows. In this connection, he finds fault with the method of awarding prizes because he says it is made purely on the basis of scholarship. In this, he is only partially right. Scholarship is of course the basis of awarding aid; what else could be? But the gentlemen who have the distribution of scholarships in charge, have the privilege of using their discretion as to whether high standing shall be the only thing considered. In many cases aid is given to a student...
...communicate his nature by mere contact or mere words: there must be the sympathy and the love which comes from obedience. We need not wait to know what Christ has for us to do before we show ourselves ready to obey. Many knew by experience that unquestioning obedience was right. We know what the name Christ means; we know what He was on earth and what His standard is. We can trust Him, simply because He is Jesus. We must become children again, not rebellions, not defiant, not meagre; but simple and devoted. When we hear His voice, there...
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