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...various ways. They would have been much less the past year, had there been no trouble with the launch (kindly loaned us by Prof. Agassiz) at New London, which necessitated the sending of our own launch there. As the items in these accounts are sufficiently clear, I shall not encroach upon your space further, by enlarging on them. Permit me again, through your columns, to thank all those who so kindly assisted me last year. My very particular thanks are due to Mr. Guy Waring, the treasurer of 1881-1882, for his frequent assistance and invaluable advice, and it gives...
...undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time devoted to those purposes...
...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 be for the last time, whatever the result; and we would earnestly deprecate anything which shall hereafter encroach upon what we all regard as the great race...
...article on "Reading and Observation"; the whole capped off by a very short editorial (on Class-Day Parts) and a few items. A college paper is meant for the college in which it is published, and its literary department, even if interesting, should not be allowed to encroach on the more important department of local news...