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...rowing the Boat Club offers to lovers of out-door exercise an excellent opportunity for enjoyment of the few weeks before the shutting in of the winter season. The scheme appears like such a thoroughly good one that it would be a great pity to have it fail for want of support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/1/1894 | See Source »

...should like to call the attention of Harvard men musically inclined, and particularly of Glee Club men who intend making New York their home, to the formation here of a University Glee Club. This Glee Club is open to all college men, and it fills a long felt want, for it brings together men from different colleges in a very pleasant and congenial way. I should be very glad to hear from any Harvard men who take an interest in such things, for it is only fitting that Harvard should be well represented in such an organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 6/16/1894 | See Source »

Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1894 | See Source »

...place where these men naturally want to practice is in the Theatre. On Monday and Tuesday afternoons of this week, two or three of the contestants, with private instructors of elocution, secured the hall and held it by locking the door for three consecutive hours. Is this not manifestly unjust to the remaining seven or eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 5/9/1894 | See Source »

...rowing spirit would indicate. While it is unquestionably true, as I have already written, that the English nation, and of course the English university men, are more generally inclined towards sport than are we, yet the paucity in numbers of our rowing men may not be traced to the want of athletic inclination in our universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caspar Whitney on Rowing in England. | 5/8/1894 | See Source »