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There are at present eight University crews and nine Freshman eights, making a total of almost 140 men working daily in the tank or on the machines...
Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring of its architecture, and the extraordinary manner in which every available inch of tillable soil was terraced up and utilized, this group of ruins is quite unique...
...expenditure of $155,000 for the athletics of Harvard. Two things are to be thought of, however, before a wholesale condemnation of these figures is passed. In the first place athletics have so great an influence on the general reputation of an American University as to be almost a necessity. This may or may not be theoretically right, but it is an important practical consideration. In the second place, a University should offer opportunities for the development of a well-rounded man, a man both physically and mentally strong. When, then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown...
...almost parallel situation is found in the case of the lacrosse team. Five of last year's team are on hand this year together with three substitutes. The regular defense loses heavily, for P. Catton '15 is the only veteran left. Two of the regular substitutes, R. G. Wilson '14, and R. W. Hallock '14 will aid in the defense work. The attack, led by P. F. Brundage and three regulars will be unusually strong. The Freshman team of last year which won 3 out of 4 games, will furnish many men for the University team. Nine games...
...Musical Review is perhaps the only one of the Harvard undergraduate publications whose circulation and influence is chiefly among the graduates. But the Review does circulate mainly among graduates and among musicians of influence. Moreover, it takes just pride in the fact that it is almost the only musical magazine in the country that is in a position to be quite free of "trade influences." It has then, an opportunity to fill its pages with articles of broad scholarship and sincere personal expression, on the subjects of music and esthetics such as would hardly appear elsewhere in the country...