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...number of candidates. In so large a class there ought not be any lack of material, and we hope '86 will make as good showing on the diamond as she bids fair to in other athletics, and trust if she is defeated by Yale it may not be for want of endeavor...
Progress gives a succinct statement of the question of co-education : "I cannot understand why women or girls and those who speak for them should want co-education. There are colleges and schools for girls nearly equal in every respect to the best of those for boys. If these girls' colleges continue to fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think...
...charges against college secret societies from the standpoint of the student could be made. No more misleading and partial judgment on the question could be given. The many and imperative reasons for the existence of these societies are half unanswered, half ignored. Our college societies supply an undoubted social want in student life. In this - in principle - they are perfectly justifiable and commendable. Many criticisms, however, are just. Much in college society life, in respect to tendency and spirit, could well be reformed. But the abolition of the social unions of students in clubs is not the way to accomplish...
...evident evil. No one who takes a proper view of baseball cares about the absolute excellence of our nine's playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that most of us want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics...
...could not swim, and, had not the other members of the crew preserved their presence of mind and relieved the boat of their weight, the result might have been very serious. In view of these facts we think that a swimming bath would indeed supply "a long-felt want," as there is at present no available place to learn this art in Cambridge...