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...evening - Delafield, Guild, Boyden and C. A. Brown. The crew have been on the slides about two weeks, rowing a rather fast stroke, about 31 or 32 to the minute. The crew has yet a somewhat ragged appearance caused by the men not swinging straight fore and aft. This, although simply a matter of appearance in the gymnasium, becomes very important in a narrow shell. There is a general tendency throughout the boat, and particularly so with number seven, and one or two others to hurry the recover and hang at the full reach. The time is good...
...prominent instance where protection is taught or even professed by an instructor. The reason is that economic science excludes the theory of protection, and no sooner does a man become a student of its principles than he will, if he is a man of logical parts, arrive by a straight road at freedom of trade, at least theoretically. The professor of Political Economy at Harvard was once editor-in-chief of a leading and influential protection journal, but we believe it took him less than a year, after divorcement from special influences and special interests, to take his place well...
...Cornell Sun speaks of "that peculiar mixture - a Harvard student." We suppose the Cornell student is regarded as perfectly "straight...
...creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea and expression are possible in them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes and all licenses of thought and subject. The majority of appropriate college themes in French metres would find themselves ill at ease when so finely gotten up and would move about in a restrained and over-careful manner. The sad smile of politeness and worn...
...delegates to form a permanent organization for arranging inter-collegiate boat races, was held in New York December 28. It was fixed that the race to take place on the fourth of July, 1883, on Lake George, should be for four oared shells, one and a half miles, straight away. Trainers professional or otherwise, may be employed by the crews. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: H. B. Swarthwood of Cornell, president; F. G. Hunter of the University of Pennsylvania, vice-president; George C. Howell of Princeton, treasurer...