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...game would be far more injurious in its effects than the writer thinks it is now. As to its being "a rude and brutal" game, it certainly is a rough game, but practice at lawn tennis will not raise American physique, now so much decried, up to the English standard. But before criticising any further the expression "brutal," we must remember that Yale was one of the contestants in the game mentioned; and if that team played in its usual style, the expression is perhaps allowable...
...Crew itself, but in all our rowing interests. The value of Mr. Peabody's work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that few men have ever done more in a year to improve Harvard in this respect than...
HERR MAURICE KEIL (from Saxony), Teacher of German, will be happy to read with Undergraduates from German classical authors, or other standard works; or give private instructions in the German Language...
HERR MAURICE KEIL (from Saxony), Teacher of German, will be happy to read with Undergraduates from German classical authors, or other standard works; or give private instructions in the German Language...
...writer of the article referred to is of the opinion that the men who now get Commencement parts will, under the new system, have "less instigation" to work. This objection might have some show of plausibility if the standard of requirements for parts were lowered, and nothing more done. But by the new system new inducements to work have been offered to these men, - the new grades, "honorable mention" and magna cum laude, have been established, and summa cum laude, an honor which heretofore has had very nearly no effect at all, will now influence the work of perhaps seven...