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...that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring classes in England have increased 200 per cent. during the last fifty years. The gains of capital have been augmented by only 15 per cent. during the same period. Mr. Edward Atkinson is authority for the statement that average wages in the United States have increased one third since...
...Thames course as a course for three boats. Upon Yale's experience of last year I intended merely to cite this as an example of what at any time might be repeated. The ground for my belief in the unsuitability of the Thames course for three boats, is the statement to that effect that I heard last year from many skilled oarsmen. The CRIMSON acknowledges the unfitness in an editorial of Nov. 17, 1886 - "Another objection is that three eights cannot race on the Thames course with equal conditions to each. Anyone who has rowed on the river cannot fail...
Finally in all seriousness, the annoyance caused by the amount of random conversation in English A., despite the instructor's gentle remonstrance, is sufficient to warrant an open statement of it and an appeal to the CRIMSON to rebuke the talkers...
...prices in many things are the same as in other stores. They forget that it is the existence of the Co-operative Society that keeps the Cambridge tradesmen within bounds. If the Society for any reason should ever be forced to close its store, the truth of this statement would speedily be made manirest...
...surround a man so situated; because it affirms as the opinion of the university that which is not the opinion of even a minority of its members. The communication is trenchant, but all trenchant remarks are two-edged, and when a personal opinion is made to masquerade as a statement of "things as they are" such statement incurs the dangerous distinction instinctively given to all "personalities." There certainly should now be allowed no possibility for such criticisms to gain credence. To one who avails himself conscientiously of the training afforded by the work of the English department, such a criticism...