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...have not as a class subscribed freely to your crew, I will make a few statements as to the management and needs of the crew, trusting that when you thoroughly understand the matter you will not let the crew suffer for lack of the necessary funds...
...Often a student finds it quite impossible to tell whether he is doing satisfactory work in lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand what was expected of him and could satisfy the instructor only after learning his error. The only argument that we have heard against giving out the marks is that if a lazy man gets a better mark at the mid-years than he expects he may fall...
...candidates have been in the habit of preparing themselves by practice pulls which are in reality almost as much of a strain as the actual contests. Instead of this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed by the H. A. A. for this year. With such a change a great part of the objection to the sport would be removed. Instead, then, of only one man's appearing as a candidate, there ought to be a larger number than...
Again, the writer is very much at fault in his conclusions about the statistics used by the CRIMSON. He cannot understand why the recent gains of Yale over Harvard with respect to western men should be called accidental. Taking the Advocate's figures between 1878 and 1886, you will find that the number of men at Harvard from the west rose from 191 to 348-a gain of 157, while the number of such men at Yale increased from 288 to 410-a gain of 122. Perhaps the writer is not aware that Yale has made its extraordinary growth during...
...theatre by Harvard students. Although since 1881 numerous Greek tragedies as well as the Birds of Aristophanes have been represented at English universities, nothing has been done at Harvard. We hope, however, that the time has come when the Greek department will give another proof of its vigor. We understand that Professor J. W. White is in favor of the undertaking of another play, though perhaps not on such a grand scale as before. His idea is rather to have two short plays, a Latin comedy followed by one of Aristophanes. Yet it certainly seems as if a representation...