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...special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept up to the standard of former years, we must continue to place men in control of them whose experience has fitted them for their positions. We trust that the wishes of the officers of the association may be heeded, and that the students may by a generous attendance at tonight's meeting give proof of their interest in the organization to whose efforts we owe the annual return to Cambridge of the Mott Haven...
...albeit Yale has her victorious crew of last year almost intact while Harvard has but three men who have ever rowed in a 'varsity race. It is the hard and conscientious work of the crew and the untiring efforts of its captain which cause us to put so much trust in the result of the race. Too much praise cannot be given Captain Storrow, who, without the valuable services of a coach and with the rawest material from which to select, has succeeded in getting together a crew of which Harvard need feel no shame, whatever may be its success...
...letter from Prof. James, published in another column, deserves the attention of every man in college. After exhorting the students to celebrate their athletic victories in a manner which shall merit the trust reposed in them, he goes on to give the theory of college government; that is, that government of students should be by students, that all matters of discipline should be decided by them just so soon they show fitness to be intrusted with such matters, We think that the time is now ripe for carrying out this theory at Harvard...
...large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students are entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take pride in showing themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them. Why should not such be the case at Harvard, the college above all others which should stand at the head in this movement toward a liberalizing of college government...
...last in this branch of sport. All the games remaining to be played will take place on our own grounds, and if any are lost it will be as much the fault of the college as of the nine. Yet we are far from advising the nine to trust to its past record for future success. It is only an unbroken succession of victories that can assure us the pennant...