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...have we a word to say about the general management of the race. The judges and committees who could not tell which boat won, whether Wesleyan or Amherst was second, the order or time of the last boats, and who left the flag on the western bank to be placed by some third person at the last moment, present a picture of mismanagement too deplorable to need any comment. They were appointed to decide the race, however close; the fact that any of these questions have arisen proclaims their inability to fill the positions assigned them...
THAT was a hopeless task we took upon ourselves when we criticised Western College Journalism. It was not our design to be unfair, and perhaps our condemnation was too sweeping. We had in mind at the time some glaring examples of inefficient writing and poor taste, and in fact we illustrated our remarks by references to these, so that every one might see we had special cases before us to which our general statements applied. But the Westminster Monthly, a paper far superior to many more pretentious issues from Colleges of larger size and wider fame, essays a defence. While...
Fades and dies in the western height...
...Western mixed colleges are said to have, like boarding-schools, very strict rules with regard to the conduct of their students. The existence of these rules proves that they are needed. We know that boys and girls find ways of circumventing their teachers; does any one suppose that young men and women do not? To us it seems that, if women come to Harvard, the true policy of the College will be teaching, pure and simple, without any laws to control the students outside the class-room. Then it will be expedient that the dormitory system shall be entirely abolished...
...told us he was lying in a Western prison cell...