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...yours does, I could manage that no one should get through in my courses without being present all the time; but, alas! Harvard civilization has not yet advanced as far as -. However, I give my men 41 per cent (the standard is the same as at Harvard), and thus, though they escape a condition, many lose their degrees through low averages. This, of course, is a great satisfaction...
Within the last fortnight, also, I have learned with regret that the Harvard and Columbia Freshmen have agreed to row an eight-oared three-mile race "at New London," though the date thereof has not yet been decided upon, and that the challenge for this was sent before the Crimson published my letter recommending that the proposed Freshman race between Harvard and Cornell be appointed for some other locality. If it is too late now to persuade the Freshmen to keep away from the Thames course at a time when their presence there may disturb the very delicately balanced arrangements...
...regatta on the Passaic was the best ever held in America" (Times); "in fact, there never was a better managed regatta on these waters" (Herald); "though the crowd was great, - about forty thousand according to estimate, - not a disorderly person was seen, and the races started promptly on time" (Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen...
...appeared in the last Crimson. The report was wide-spread in the College at the time, and we had every reason to suppose that it was true. Our only object in publishing it was to bring forcibly before the minds of hard students the danger of over-work; and though we are happy to learn that the rumor in question is false, the principle remains the same...
...Though lost to sight to memory dear...