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...Room of the Gymnasium tomorrow afternoon. All wrestlers must weigh in at the Gymnasium at 3.30 o'clock tomorrow, after which the drawings will be made and the preliminary bouts will take place. Two pounds overweight will be allowed in each class. All wrestlers who have not taken strength test since January 1, should do so this afternoon between 2 and 4 o'clock...
...probation will not be allowed to compete. For the wrestling a strength-test of 600 points, and for the fencing one of 500 points must have been passed since January...
...shell for the University crew, presented by Mrs. Robert Bacon, which was made by George Sims & Son, of Putney, England, arrived in Boston yesterday morning on the steamship "Cambrian." From Boston it will be taken to the Newell boathouse and during the spring practice will be given a thorough test by the University crew. The new shell is 61 feet long and is of the American type, all the seats being placed directly over the keel instead of being alternately to port and starboard as in all English boats...
...would materially benefit those who took it, but as it could not, from its very nature, be made compulsory, it would naturally fail to reach the entire student body. There are two methods, however, by which all students could be reached,--through English A, or by an entrance test in reading. The former method seems perhaps the more feasible, and there is considerable spare time in the recitations in English A, which might very properly be devoted to practice in reading. But whether through a special course, by an entrance requirement, or through English A, some facility in reading should...
...true that men are perhaps more likely to do work under the immediate pressure of a test than to come back from their Sunday rest prepared for an examination; but, on the other hand, reading done under pressure at the end of the week is not calculated to bring very satisfactory results. There is nothing, of course, to prevent anyone from laying out his work to suit himself, but experience proves that the majority of undergraduates are incapable of spreading it out judiciously, and leave everything until the last minute. Such an irregular method of work in any line...