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...University Magazine, the representative of the University of Pennsylvania, has printed an editorial trying to sustain the action of their boat club in issuing the general challenge which recently has been so generally condemned. It takes the HERALD-CRIMSON particularly to task and advises us to read the editorials of two Philadelphia papers, in articles which have supported them, we believe, as a local institution, without giving any sound reasons for so doing. The Philadelphia Evening News says of the Pennsylvanians; "They have met and defeated all the other prominent oarsmen." However this may be with regard to four oared...
...knit his brow as he thinks, or in any way evince effort as he works. The best brainwork is done easily; with a calm spirit, an equable temper and in a jaunty mood. All else is the toil of a weak or ill-developed brain straining to accomplish a task which is relatively too great...
...Boston Advertiser of Dec. 28, takes the Intercollegiate Rowing Association to task for accepting the offer of the hotel and railroad men of Saratoga to provide board and passes for the crews, and says that college "athleticism" will be very objectionable if it is to depend upon hotel men and their followers for its patronage. This hardly seems just. In these days of enormous expenditures for athletics, anything which will honorably lighten the burden of the students will meet with approbation. Boat-races are a species of contest which do not make any money returns to the crews for their...
...Aristophanes' comedy, the "Birds," in Cambridge, England, seems from all reports to have been a most gratifying success. The mere labor and care that must be employed in putting one of the old Greek plays on the stage is really enormous, and the successful completion of so great a task must be a source of congratulation to all engaged in it. The uniform success which has greeted the production of all the Greek plays brought out in England leads us to ask whether it would not be possible to give another play here at Harvard. The "OEdipus" was eminently successful...
Long continued mental labor, especially where the feelings are enlisted, makes fearful drafts upon the bodily frame. With sound, sturdy, bodily health, one can not only labor mentally more hours in the twenty four, but can, while working, throw into his task a greater amount of intellectual force. The mind gathers impulse and force from the body whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever...