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There is, decidedly, ample room for improvement in the present Thayer Club. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how it could be worse. We think that few would agree with a writer in the last number of the Advocate, in his statement that the board at the Club is as good as can be obtained outside for $6 a week; aside from the attendant disadvantages mentioned by the writer, and the additional one, we fear, of uncleanliness in preparing the food. There can be little doubt that all disorder will cease in our new refectory; indeed, if the principle...
...Amherst Student, in an editorial, assigns its reasons for withdrawing from the Regatta in a straightforward, manly way which commands our respect, though we think her action a mistaken one. If the pledges of the Saratoga Rowing Association are fulfilled, Amherst will again enter the contest next year...
...morality of Saratoga and its evil influences have been, we think, unwarrantably blackened. The Rowing Association, under whose auspices the regatta is to be conducted, is composed of men whose appearance and manners claim for them the title of gentlemen. The collegiate and daily papers in New England which have denounced Saratoga have made a great many abusive insinuations, which, in our opinion, are entirely contradicted by facts. We are confident that all the crews which go to Saratoga will bring away with them the same opinion...
...must not think, however, that I include all instructors in this category. There are occasionally some who survive this treatment, and, recovering their health of mind, exercise their reasoning faculty and dare to think, in spite of the prefect, in spite of the cure. This class certainly does not constitute a majority, and, in any case, at the first occasion they abandon a position which offers few advantages in return for numberless annoyances and troubles constantly recurring. Indeed, I have not been speaking so much of instructors in particular as of the whole class, and especially of the deplorable system...
More suggestive than any suggestion is the following statement, made without comment: "It has been a common opinion that prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves " (this part of the opinion, we think, has been generally abandoned), "but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There...