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...tide in 22m. 10s. They rowed only at a 33 stroke. This is good time. The Harvard men are all in good condition. The freshman crew is rowing very well and gives the 'varsity good practice. The men are all in good condition and ought to make a splendid showing June 30. Columbia freshmen are here. They sank in their shell a few days ago and spoiled their boat so they had to send to New Haven for a class boat which they are using now. The Yale Freshmen are expected today...
...ever since he entered college not merely a member of the team, but one of those most actively and earnestly interested in the team's success, he is the kind of a captain who will put his whole soul into his work. The last captain has set him a splendid example to work up to and we believe that if the college gives Captain Thompson the support that he deserves, the success of the team of 1893 will not be second to that of the glorious team...
...position in the middle region of the country, where it stands as a new Harvard, Yale, or Johns Hopkins, attending to that expensive highest instruction which the smaller colleges cannot of themselves supply; all these things must lead a lover of learning to welcome the new foundation as a splendid addition to the educational resources of the country, and may well make any man eager to serve upon its staff...
From childhood up, he held the first place in the circle which surrounded him. His faculties were large and splendid. His imagination was grand, sombre, sometimes appalling and his humor is as genuine as it is fantastic...
People point to the Phi Beta Kappa as an incentive to high scholarship. It would be much more of an incentive if it were better known by the students. The stirring spectacle of the annual meeting of the graduate members of the society in Sanders Theatre, that splendid gathering of what is most learned and most revered in old Harvard, a sight which is in itself enough to fire 'many a young man with ambitions of scholarship, comes unfortunately at a time when there are very few undergraduates in Cambridge to see it and have their ambitions aroused. In this...