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...understand that the clubs which form the Union Club have become exceedingly remiss in their obligations to the organization. Some of the clubs have not yet paid their rent. That is a matter which each club, that has the slightest pride in its own name, will immediately regulate...
...collect enough money from the members to pay for the expenditures necessary to be made immediately. Under this agreement the club rooms were furnished. The money which the clubs promised has not yet been paid, and the Union Club is consequently over four hundred dollars in debt. We cannot understand the reason of this deficit. Either the officers of the various clubs which agreed to subscribe have been abominably lazy in not collecting, or the members have been utterly blind to their obligations. A charitable view would be that the members have not thoroughly understood the matter. We hope that...
...rapidity with which western colleges are approaching the high standard of the eastern colleges. For Harvard at this time such a fact has especial significance. We are now in the midst of a discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand it, one of the principal arguments of the opposers of the new plan is that the college should not give way to the professional schools; that Harvard College still has the same function to fulfill which it has always had, and that there are no indications that the college will...
...said that she was quick to build up her system once she saw the need it, and Yale rowing stands today on a solid foundation with a clearly-defined policy. Harvard, on the other hand, has a code not so clearly formulated. She has men who understand the science, but unfortunately there are factions that represent different ideas. In rowing, Harvard is sorely in need of leader and of harmony among her graduates...
...understand that the question which the H. A. A. Management have to face is a hard one. They say that they must look at it practically. They say that the only way for the H. A. A. to carry on its athletics successfully is to have firm financial basis; and that the only way to get this is to force members to join the Association. Whether or not this is the only way to get sufficient funds remains to be seen; but the one principle at stake-which, in this instance, the H. A. A. has seemed to abandon...