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...pins. Mr. Blaikie has finished two singles and one double-scull of the kind called "compromise" boats. Of this pattern also are the three boats built by Davy. This kind of boat is just like a shell in appearance but is much broader and more buoyant so as to stand rough water. Although not so light as shells they are not very much less frail and men using them ought to take great care in handling them...
...purpose of finding out what stand Harvard would take in the matter of contributions that the Harvard Classical Club appointed a committee to bring the matter before the attention of the undergraduates. About twenty-five undergraduates were appointed to act as a general committee in regard to the affair. At a meeting a few nights ago Dr. Morgan and Dr. Tarbell of the classical department spoke briefly and gave the committee the facts of the case which are here set down for the consideration of the college at large. The members of the general committee were unanimously of the opinion...
...probably get two first prizes; Columbia, also, will be in the front and ought to take as many first places. Yale can hardly get more than one first prize. Harvard has no men at all who, from their record, are sure for first places, but she has men that stand a reasonable chance for second prizes in many of the events...
...delivered an interesting lecture on "Semitic Sacred Books." The speaker said that we have to observe that the Semitic people were not behind other people in advancing thought but they were fully as worldly as the Greeks and thus they were able to accomplish much good. The Semitic books stand apart from other books in their power to adapt themselves to practical needs of the people...
There seems still to be doubt in the minds of several instructors as to the advisability of giving out the mid-year marks in their courses. We cannot see why this hesitation should exist. It is only just that men should be given a chance to know how they stand. Often a student finds it quite impossible to tell whether he is doing satisfactory work in lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand...