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...show visitors our fine buildings, large libraries, and valuable museums, but they do not fully express the ends for which they were founded, as long as this "Harvard Indifference" is so prevalent...
...straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...
...stroke. The freshmen crew has had so short a time on the water, that a more detailed criticism cannot well be given, and, indeed, would not give a fair idea of the capabilities of the crew. The individuals have not yet fallen into special faults, but all show a lack of familiarity with an oar handle...
...short resting space, the college calls "Time" for the third and final bout of the annual struggle between students and studies. Again we come back to Cambridge with the same old resolutions to do a tremendous amount of work, and do it well,- how well the "finals" only can show. But leaving aside the question of studies, which concerns, after all, only individuals, we must stop for a moment to consider the state of the athletic interest, which concerns the university as a whole. We are, practically, upon the threshold of our season of out-door practice. A winter...
...severe test to which the accommodations of the gymnasium have been subjected by the large number of men taking regular daily exercise in the building, has served to show that the bathing facilities are not adequate to meet the demand. From a rather intimate acquaintance with the slowness with which the authorities make any changes in existing arrangements we are led to believe that for some time to come we must endure this state of things. To make it more endurable, however, both attendants and students must exercise the most scrupulous care to keep everything in the most cleanly condition...