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Last week the Wellesley Seniors voted to abandon a solemn tradition, the honorable and salutary practice of step-scrubbing. The picture of sedate seniors in the customary char-woman pose, washing down the steps of Founders' Hall on the Wellesley class day, was surely it picturesque survival; but the class decided, with some logic, that there were more agreeable ways of showing class loyalty and spirit...
...well-known writers on subjects relating to amateur sport appears in Harper 's Weekly of Feb.26. It is one of a number of contributions by John Corbin '91, on the general subject of "A Harvard Man at Oxford," the special subject being "Slacking on the Isis and the Char." It is an interesting sketch and gives promise of opening an interesting column...
...unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon race, and while I am not disposed to stigmatise it in itself, yet when we come to consider science in itself, utility is not the thing to be taken into account alone...