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...beforehand on the support which the college should have given it, unwisely made more expensive preparations than its funds warranted. The result was that the Cycling Association began its work this year with a very considerable debt on its hands. After hard and praiseworthy work, the association has, we understand, paid off this debt; and now starts out afresh...
...unlikely, we imagine, that the association will repeat its mistake of last year of not having its support assured beforehand. We understand that already enough funds have been secured to warrant the carrying on of the arrangements. To ensure success, however, the association will need far more generous support from the college. The work of the Cycling Association is a direct aid in the development of our material for the track athletic games with Yale and the other colleges. If our college recognized this fact more plainly, we should not now have to urge its more loyal support...
There are other sides of the question which come up, but those we have mentioned seem to be the principal. The faculty, we understand, is now considering the arguments for these two plans; and is very soon to decide which method they shall adopt for next year. In their vote on the question we trust they will be influenced somewhat by the opinion of the students on a matter which so nearly concerns the latter. We cannot pretend that our view on the subject is the accurate expression of the whole college; because the students have...
...group of studies in the list: in other words, to put in another hour of recitations. This new hour will begin next fall; it must somehow be squeezed into our already crowded day. The question of how to get this hour in is the one which, we understand, the faculty has now before it to solve...
...understand that Exeter may, if it will, become a member of the association. We hope that the school, in disscussing the matter, will make every effort to find out the real advantages of the plan of the association; and we ask that the Exonian and other Exeter school papers bring as strongly as possible before the students Harvard's feeling in the matter...