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...fact, the only branch of athletics to which the Rhode Island college has given strong support is base-ball. It seems, however, that an effort is to be made to restore rowing to its old position of prominence, and the following clipping from the Brunonian would seem to show that this effort bids fair to attain success...
Further, it will be urged that college men in the position of umpires would either be so prejudiced as to show favoritism to their own team, or else so zealous to guard against such favoritism as to give all doubtful decisions to the opposite side. This objection ignores the fact that in the proposed plan the umpires are alumni. The majority of undergraduates would be biassed in their decisions. But a man who has been out of college for a year or more is too far removed from the scene of college activities to be warped by prejudice or enthusiasm...
...good prices that most of the tutors get, show well how great is the demand for their services. The tutor of maximum ability is, in a way, in the position of a monopolist, and can get his own prices. A man comes to him and cries; "Oh, Mr. Snodkins, tutor me and get me through,-get me through, remember,"-and I will pay you almost any sum. This is the wail of the sinking student. It may be, he is going down for the third time. His tutor reached down his arms and, we will at least hope, rescues...
...naturally arises the same old question, "Of what real good are examinations?" or, as a Freshman once put it, "Quid Bonus?" The Freshman's way of putting it was, perhaps, a happy one, in as much as his question per se gives an answer, namely, that examinations are to show what a man does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly ought not to be, only...
...loftily contemptuous)-"Well, if you'll give me a piece of string, I'll show...