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...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
...clip the following suggestive passage from a recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share...
...clip the following interesting article on the Vatican Library from the Cornell...
...clip the following from the Yale News of Friday : "There appeared in this morning's paper a letter from the chairman of the committee on athletics, forbidding the Harvard eleven from carrying out an arrangement with Yale to play a match game on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day. This action will cause serious loss, financial and otherwise. In the first place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark...
...clip the following from the editorial columns of the Princetonian : "There is an impression prevalent in college that our foot-ball team is not faithfully living up to that rigid course of training which alone is calculated to develop the powers of the men to their full and legitimate extent. Our own opinion, justified by occasional remarks of some members of the team, is that several players are not doing their duty. It is a shame, but nevertheless a fact, that some men will work harder and train more faithfully before the team is chosen and when there is free...