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...crews, including the seven University and the four Freshman crews, had a strenuous afternoon's work on the river yesterday. Most of the ice in front of the two boathouses has now melted, leaving a clear space for the crews to put out. It is hoped that the steam coaching launch, "John Harvard" will be put in the water for this afternoon...
...five that Harvard students would naturally join, will be held for only five weeks, allowing ample time for other possible summer undertakings; the expenses of the outing will be so slight that the experience is possible for practically everyone; the work will not be so strenuous that it is devoid of enjoyment; the wide variety of the training will render it worth while whether the country is ever at war or not. The military camps furnish a solution of the summer problem worthy of much consideration, particularly for those who are still without plans...
...select. Sometimes, the class secretaryship seems to be given as a consolation prize to a candidate who failed to get a marshalship. Occasionally, a popular athlete finds himself landed in a position which he accepts as a token of the good will of his classmates, before he understands the strenuous duties it involves--duties for which be may have neither taste nor aptitude. During the past dozen years several secretaries have been chosen who reside in distant cities. Experience shows that distance is an almost insuperable handicap, both in collecting news and managing class reunions. We have before us letter...
...been the result of close confinement in an ill-ventilated room; and, though we have found out since that such was not the case, the incident, nevertheless, served to recall the matter of classroom ventilation. We may as well be specific, too, for there have been at least two strenuous complaints on that subject within the last few days...
...drill in defensive tactics against a set of heavy second team backs, and the University backfield, experimented on some new formations. The last half hour of the afternoon was spent in dummy scrimmage, one University eleven pitted against the other. All in all, however, the work was not strenuous...