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...England afford unequalled chances for enjoyable cruises to companies of canoeists. A formally organized club could do much for the promotion of this ideal pastime at Harvard, and, if organized, would doubtless receive many members. The only objection to it which could be made might be that it would detract, possibly, from the interest in sports longer established. But many men whose time is not occupied in any other form of athletics, might be induced to favor this form, while there need be no necessity of drawing off those who are already engaged. The status of such a club would...
Although a low college rank cannot make void or hardly detract from real acquirements, yet there always follows it a sense of injustice which a college should by every possible means seek to avoid, as it burns into the very marrow of the young and sensitive...
...than the one gained at Springfield, on Saturday, Harvard could not ask. The choice of position which fell to Harvard's lot was much more than balanced by the very rough water which came in answer to Yale's prayers; there was not a foul or an accident to detract from the brilliant success of the race as a race, and the relative positions of the two boats for the whole four miles kept the interest of the spectators at the highest pitch throughout. The race was won not by luck or by chance, but by the long practice...
...Harvard cannot be expected to row two races every year; and the wisdom of excluding all other colleges from the race with Yale has been too well shown to be questioned; and from the interest in that race all other races, such as this one with Columbia, will seriously detract. Too much caution cannot be taken to keep the Yale race distinct from all others, and to avoid everything which will lessen its importance. Therefore, while we are glad that Columbia and Harvard are to meet on the water again this year, we must say we hope it will...
...Italian of the new comer; but the English was Shakspere's, while the name of the translator of "Amleto" is not preserved. To almost all, it is Hamlet in pantomime; and the labor of mentally connecting Shakspere's words with the action of the player can hardly fail to detract somewhat from the spectator's pleasure. But, pantomime and all, Salvini's Hamlet interests and pleases. Throughout it recalls Booth much more than Fechter, to our mind. In the scene where the ghost first appears, a great deal of the acting seems strangely familiar, and elsewhere throughout the play...