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...Among the twenty-three candidates for the crews are several fine athletes, who are more or less known. The best oarsman and probable stroke is G. H. Thayer, '90, weight 154 pounds. Thayer is a powerful, well-built man, possessing a clear head and excellent judgment. He was a member of last year's crew. W. R. Tobey, '90, who was the captain of last year's crew, will also row this year, as will D. Upton, '90, a man of great endurance. J. F. Dewy, '92, who goes by the name of "Gruth James," is also a promising candidate...
There is a movement on foot among the different college graduates at Cleveland to organize a University Club. This club will be open to the alumni of any college. Already one hundred and twenty-five have signified their intention of joining. A club house is to be secured and the club incorporated in a very short time. The most prominent promoters of the club are the Yale graduates of the city, the following being on the committee who have full charge of everything: C. J. Sheffield, '67; B. Perrin, '69; C. W. Harkness, '81, and C. W. Bingham, '68. There...
...view of the discussion now going on over the relation of athletics to scholarship among college students, some facts collected from the recent report of the committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew...
...filled from the number of those who are trying for the nine. The following men are at present in training: Brown, Clarke and Wilson from '89; Brown, Campbell, Corliss. Durand and Perry, '90; Arthur, Cox, Holhster, Hotchkiss, Luce, Thompson, '91; and Armstrong, Campbell, Davies, McKean, Mapes, Roberts, Woodward, '92. Among these. Hotchkiss, Luce, and Campbell, '92, will be readily recognized as old Andover men. The men are now doing gymnasium work; but as soon as possible they will practice on the field, and a second nine will be selected to play against the first. Casey of the Philadelphias will again...
...action the disciple hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they find between them and the fulfilment of these ideals long years of drudgery and self-sacrifice, they hold back from the struggle and are content to remain among the commonplace things of earth. Men can never be what God wishes them to be until they take Christ's saying into their hearts-"I must go up to Jerusalem," Before the closing hymn, Mr. Skinner of the Law School sang the tenor solo "O Saviour, hear us," by Gluck...