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There are possibilities that Cambridge will have its elevated railroad into Boston. The petition for the Meigs system now being circulated about Cambridge by Mr. Bassett has already received 4000 signatures...
...method has been in vogue in England ever since 1868 with very good results, due in a great part to the purity of the civil service there. The only thing which prevents its adoption here is the bad state into which our government service has come under the "spoils system." As this, however, is being rapidly done away with, we may look forward to cheaper and more efficient telegraph service under the management of the government...
Exeter is evidently willing to do all it can to send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love...
...great popularity, it is reported that the faculty expect to reduce the working force, while the English department, where the instruction, as far as the prescribed courses are concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain the services of some new man who would reflect credit upon the university, as the instructor named for the position is one already identified with Harvard...
...suggestion offered in the Exonian as regards teaching the Exeter crews the proper method of rowing, has certainly much to commend it. The whole objection in the past to aiding the academy boating interests has been that the men there were liable to acquire a bad system of rowing, so that it would afterwards be harder to teach them the Harvard stroke than it would if they had known absolutely nothing about rowing. The Exonian, in mentioning a way for removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years...