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...Captain of the University Crew has sent out lists of daily training to the different applicants. The list includes one thousand strokes at the weights, and either a four-mile run or a two-mile walk...
...three volumes to a man. Very frequently a man is reading up in some particular branch and wants to have several books by him for reference. The College Library ought to furnish him with these books, and a reasonable discretion should be allowed as to the number taken. A thousand objections may be raised, - all might take a hundred volumes more or less, - but only a few hard-working men would really desire more than the present allowance, and they are the men the Library should be for. A student in history may want several works of, say, three volumes...
...course was a straight-away one, three miles in length. Precisely at three o'clock, as the starting-gun was fired, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five oars were dipped simultaneously into the water with a unison that was truly grand...
Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference...
...five of the 335 Colleges have more than a thousand students; they...