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...beginning of last year the Advocate published several articles arguing the question whether University men should or should not be allowed to row at the spring and fall races on their class crews. The articles on one side insisted that to permit them would give an unfair advantage to some of the crews; while the other side maintained that it would be gross unfairness to some classes not to permit their best men to row on the crew which represented them...
...that great success can be attained only by concentrated and continued effort. Thus they, and even persons who do not witness the struggle, by the very knowledge that men have struggled thus and succeeded, are urged to more exertion, in hope of greater success. The principle is the same, whether the struggle lies in pulling an oar or writing a dictionary...
...WHETHER or not the annual intercollegiate regatta, which is, as yet, nothing more than an experiment, deserves to be perpetuated as a custom, is a disputed question; but even if it should be answered unanimously in the affirmative, the advocates of the lately proposed system of literary contests still have their case to prove. The chief advantage of the regatta is said to be the increased disposition for physical work which it fosters in the minds of undergraduates generally, by bringing into popularity so healthy an exercise as boating. This it does in two ways, by encouraging rowing among those...
...energies. As the report wisely remarks, a general education "instead of being less, is more necessary for men designed for certain callings." It quotes Mr. Agassiz's advice to young men professing to be naturalists, namely, to pass first through college, giving "full scope to literary studies, whether in ancient or modern tongues, to moral and intellectual philosophy, to the moral and social history of mankind, and to pure mathematics." This report is recommended to the attention of any who desire to go back of the outward form, and understand the principles that are at work in making Harvard University...
...project of turning the present Gymnasium into a swimming-bath is, to say the least, unique. Particulars of the plan, however, are not given, and we are left to conjecture how often the water would be changed and the tank washed out, and whether it would be kept warm in the winter or allowed to freeze up, to serve as a skating rink. It is doubtless true that "Charles River is no longer fit to bathe in, because of the sewage which is discharged into it, and there are no public baths which are accessible to the students...