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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From a manly form behind...
...would be well if those who are to fill the responsible positions next year carefully avail themselves of the experience of those who have been successful heretofore. There is material enough left in college, but we need hard work and skilful guidance to mould it into proper form...
...very good. We are happy, however, to be able to state that the facts in the case do not warrant such a conclusion. Yale, to be sure, has a much better crew in some respects than that of last year. The men are heavier, taller, and row in better form; but they are all new men except three, - a fact greatly in our favor, and one that superficial writers in making their estimate too often overlook. Harvard, on the other hand, has but one new man (that is a man who has never rowed in University boat), and the crew...
...This is not used as a timepiece, but is an instrument of torture disguised in that form...
...simple teacher of gymnastics without the light of anatomical knowledge to judge of each student's condition and powers by careful examination, would be no improvement on the present state of affairs, and under him all exercises might gradually give place to class-drill or that most worthless form of physical exercise - the military drill...