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...taking hold of rowing with a vim that bodes well for our success next summer. Commodore Psotta, our veteran sculler. has taken things in hand with even more than his customary vigor. A new era is about to begin in the history of rowing at Cornell. The day of four-oared rowing is over. Perhaps all are not aware that the old intercollegiate association is finally and permanently broken up. To the recent call for a convention, not a single college responded. Cornell's record in the association has been a brilliant one and she comes...
...Step by step such reforms have been taking place in the American game, but it remained for the season of 1887 to inaugurate the most radical, as well as the most successful measures. Graduates of the colleges sent a representative before the convention in the summer, and asked the Association to adopt a constitution, in which should be incorporated these two salient features: A change to two referees, and the appointment of one of these to be in the hands of graduates. The Association most willingly adopted the suggestion of the alumni, and the result has been more satisfactory than...
...however, the large membership promises numerous entries, and exciting races may confidently be expected. The Canoe Club is a social as well as an aquatic organization, and "smokers" are given from time to time during the winter, which have thus far been very successful. It is expected that next summer a number of the members will go to the "meet" of the American Canoe Association, which takes place this year at Lake George. Canoeists from all over the country assemble at one large camp and live together for several weeks. Many races take place there, and Harvard will now have...
...Hamilton, Harvard, '87, former president of the CRIMSON board and professor on classics in Chattanooga University, will sail for Europe early in June to spend the summer in Berlin...
...scholastic discussion and digests of doctrine, argument or opinion. (8) The last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature of plants in summer, Historia civil is and Historia natural is were close companions in all early academic courses, and they have remained associates in some American colleges down to the present day. (9) The absence of Latin from the entire plan of study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students...