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...known that a change has been suggested in our club system, and that a canvass is now being carried on to ascertain what probability of success it may have. A full and explicit statement of the matter may not, however, be superfluous...
...Directors of the Reading-Room have been laboring with commendable zeal, and with some success, to free the Association from a large gas debt. Many magazines which could be seen in the Library have been dropped from the lists, and the number of magazines now to be found in the Reading-Room is less than ten. We could wish that even these be discontinued, for they are all to be had in the Library, where they are much more likely to be sought for. While the Reading-Room supplies no need in the way of magazines, it does supply...
...much to be regretted that Mr. Dana, the loss of whose really valuable services is a serious drawback, has decided to cease coaching. His place is now filled by Mr. Loring, '78, from whom the College will expect faithful, painstaking efforts and proportional success. Under his care the crew have slightly improved in catch and reach; but the individual faults have not noticeably decreased...
...club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting and the seats in a club six eagerly sought...
...experience of past years that hard work on the part of the crews makes a race much more interesting to those who pull as well as to those who see it. Holyoke, though not always having the best men, has been much the most successful of the clubs, and the secret of its success as well as of the interest taken in its crews has been the quality and duration of the training which the club has done. If we are to have races this spring which will not utterly discredit boating at Harvard, the clubs must begin work...