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...London or not? Unless the money is raised by a certain time, the athletic committee has said that the crew shall not go to New London. That decision seems to be clear enough to the average student, but is evident that the freshmen do not understand it. If they have sense, they will take in the situation now, once for all, and will show enough energy and generosity to give their crew a race with Columbia...
...Boston Herald of yesterday there appeared a long article relating to the three years course. It stated that since the final vote on the matter rested with the Overseers, and since the Overseers are elected by the Alumni, in order that the Alumni may fully understand the position taken by the Faculty, "a circular has been sent by the University to every Alumnus, setting forth the problem which the college Faculty was called upon to solve, and of the considerations which determined its action." However admirable such a scheme might be, the facts of the case are that no such...
...graduates should understand their position, however. When the undergraduates call upon the graduates for help they do not ask it of every man who has received a degree from the University, but who never did anything for athletics while in college. Such men, armed with theories which a man who has spent a year or two in training knows are utterly useless, can accomplish nothing. It is men of this type who make all the trouble, and who make the undergraduates disgusted. Such men had best do all they can to urge other men of recognized ability to give advice...
These graduate committees will be useful only so far as they are made up of men who understand what they talk about, and in making its appointments the Athletic Committee must always recognize this fact or they will fail to bring about the end in view...
...good advice when they have knotty questions to decide in business life or in study. They are apt, if the difficulty is very great, either to give it up entirely or else to make a guess at the solution and usually guess wrongly. People don't as a rule understand that there is One above earthly perplexities who is, nevertheless, able to end perplexity as no one else...