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EVEN as early as this many of us are wondering what we shall do during the next summer, and, like wise men, we decide generally to let things take their own course, and if then nothing turns up, to go to some place where we have enjoyed ourselves before, and where we are sure to meet old friends and live the same old times over again. The fear of passing an unpleasant summer, or of incurring great expense, prevents many from trying some new ground for their summer's enjoyment. To be sure, summer boarding-houses in the country...
...advisability of changing the course of the Yale-Harvard Race. He seems, to the present writer, to sum up very conclusively the advantages of still adhering to New London, but there are several points merely alluded to by him which it may be well to take up more at length. In the course of the past ten years Harvard crews have rowed over all the principal racing grounds in New England and New York. We have successively tried Worcester, Springfield, Saratoga, New London, and Owasco in 'Varsity and Class Races, and fixed on New London as combining the greatest number...
EVERY one is looking forward to the pleasure of witnessing some good contests at the Winter Meetings of the H. A. A. next March, but we are afraid that not all are looking forward to the pleasure of taking part in those contests. This being the case, we wish to urge every one who has reason to suppose that he can, by faithful training, make a good showing a month from now, to go to work at once with energy. We say this especially to Freshmen, because, as has been said before, it is in the Freshman year that...
...questions may be answered, indeed, by writing under pressure for the three hours, but the answers cannot be full, or carefully stated, and there is, of course, no opportunity for reading over and correcting what has been written. Other cases, in language courses, when enough translation is required to take two hours, besides questions that cannot be satisfactorily answered in an hour and a half, have occurred as usual; and it is a curious fact that these long papers are almost always given by those instructors who habitually prolong their recitations beyond the hour allotted to them. A fair paper...
...pity, however, that there is no regular coach to direct it, as the next four or five weeks before the river is open are especially important, and an efficient trainer could do much towards improving them. We sincerely hope that a coach will be found at once to take charge of this gymnasium work, feeling assured that it would be the very best thing for the Crew...