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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to call attention to this possible drawback to a system otherwise so promising, and to express a hope that such apprehension will prove groundless. It would certainly be unfortunate if after the care expended in formulating a plan intended to enable the judges to make unquestionable selections with greater facility, the number of candidates for the team were to fall below the standards of the past. If such proves to be the case, the advantages accruing from a more minute treatment of the question under the three steps of the new system will hardly justify its permanent adoption...
...submitted to a standing advisory committee composed partly of several competent professional men and partly of members of the Governing Boards of the University," it can but be plain to every one that even if "artistic questions can rarely be separated from questions of cost, of utility, and of express or implied obligation to benefactors," they might often be made to conform to each of these specifications...
...money might be given, and that if adjoining lands were included in the scheme the difficulties of purchase would be increased. Further they did not think it expedient to have a standing advisory committee, as artistic questions can rarely be separated from questions of cost, of utility, and of express or implied obligations to benefactors, for all of which matters the Corporation is responsible...
...important to call attention to the entire lack of available life saving apparatus at the Weld boat house. In previous years there has been a whitehall boat, the property of the club, moored to the float for the express purpose of putting out to the rescue of shipwrecked oarsmen, but unfortunately it is no longer seaworthy as it has been left in the river all winter. There is now a boat belonging to the City of Cambridge placed at the boat house by the I ark Commission for life saving purposes, but as it is chained and padlocked...
...Freshman Gymnastics at Yale which outlines the practical working of the compulsory course instituted there this year. Now that the Harvard Faculty have the question of Physical Training under consideration, it is well for undergraduates to form opinions of the plans proposed and be in a position to express them...