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Captain Finley, of the University Crew, has determined that the candidates for next year's crew shall have the benefit of a rowing tank in which to practice during the coming winter, and he is making every effort to accomplish his purpose. It was at first hoped that arrangements could be made to have the tank placed in the Hemenway gymnasium, but permission to do this has been absolutely refused by the authorities. There is no doubt, however, that permission will be granted to build the tank in the old gymnasium, opposite Memorial Hall, which is at present unoccupied. This...
...little attention to which is paid in this country. On the other hand, such has been the excessive multiplicity of undergraduate colleges in this country in recent years, that, to quote Professor Barnard, "The business of these colleges is greatly overdone, and it would certainly be a material benefit to the educational interests of the country if a large proportion of the existing colleges could be suppressed. From statistics gathered by the undersigned in former years with great labor it was made manifest that while in the last half century the proportion of students in arts in American colleges...
...first of Professor Toy's four lectures on "Moslum Civilization" takes place in Boylston Hall tonight. A prevailing fault among the students here is that too little attention is paid to lectures given especially to their benefit and that only when some distinguished visitor speaks do they show their approbation by a good attendance. If Professor Toy were a member of some college other than our own, his reputation as a scholar and a traveller would undoubtedly bring out a large attendance, but the fact of his connection with the college means to a number of men that as they...
...many ways; especially in keeping alive the interest in Harvard in the sections which they represent and in helping men from those sections to become acquainted here. Exeter has for many years been one of Harvard's most important preparatory schools, and any scheme which will be of benefit to both school and college, deserves the support of all exeter men at Harvard...
...young men are looking to the east where universities offer more advantages for pursuing different branches of study than the few colleges near their own homes. Aside from the pleasure arising from the social intercourse between the students now in college, the club will doubtless prove a great benefit to freshmen coming from Minnesota as a means by which they may make friends early in their college course and be freed from that forlorn condition of straying aimlessly around during the first few weeks without knowing anyone...