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...does not seem to be generally understood that the high jump, pole vault, and shot put are handicap events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. Winter Meeting. | 2/12/1895 | See Source »

...functions of the Medical Visitor seem to be vaguely understood and it may be well to make them definite. So far as possible all students in Cambridge not living at home are visited immediately upon receiving a report of absence caused by illness. The object of this visitation is to see that the student receives proper medical care, to guard against the spread of contagious disease, and incidentally to give such advice regarding general habits as is desired or necessary. Ordinarily the medical treatment is not undertaken, but cases are referred to their regular physicians. The reports are taken from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from Dr. Fitz. | 2/9/1895 | See Source »

...were adopted by the Dining Association last fall have had a thorough trial. Some of the evils which it was predicted would appear under the new system, do indeed exist, but many more have failed to materialize and the positive advantages of the new arrangement, taken as a whole, seem so evident as completely to justify the change. The former club-table men were called upon to make a sacrifice which meant a great deal to them, and they submitted with excellent grace to what appeared to be the good of the majority. If they cannot help thinking occasionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1895 | See Source »

Freshman Crew.The first two freshman crews rowed about 500 strokes yesterday. The men did not seem to hold out well owing, probably, to the unusually hard work of the day before. The two new candidates have not progressed far enough in learning the stroke to make it possible to say anything with regard to their ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Notes. | 2/6/1895 | See Source »

...paragraphs in The Nation of December 20, 1894, making the fifty-three 'immortals' whose names are inscribed on the drum of the dome of the new House of Representatives in Boston a text for emphasizing the influence of college-bred men, are wholesome reading, and seem to have been much commented on in college journals. They have called to my mind an investigation made some years ago to ascertain what proportion of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the framers of the Constitution were college-bred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Influence of College-Bred Men. | 2/6/1895 | See Source »