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...boating interest when less than a hundred men are present at the annual meeting of the Boat Club? Are all the other athletic club meetings to be held with a like scanty attendance? Surely not. The undergraduates must awake to the importance of the work to be done, and govern themselves accordingly...
...dispute with a player on the opposing team. This is a practice contrary to all Harvard traditions. It must not occur again. Next we feel compelled to notice the conduct of certain members of the visiting team. With utter disregard of all the rules of self-restraint which should govern a college ball player, these players badgered the umpire with such persistency that at last it became almost unbearable. For the sake of the reputation of college athletics, we hope that a repetition of this offence may be avoided hereafter...
...students alone, passed the faculty by what was practically a unanimous vote. An approach to unanimity is not of very frequent occurrence when that body votes on matters of general policy, and in this case it proves how strong a desire now exists there to let the students govern themselves, wherever such government appears likely to succeed...
...books can be kept out for the regular period of four weeks, just as is the case with old books. It is obvious, however, that in the great majority of cases, new books are in a much greater demand than old books, and that the same rules should govern the distribution of both is manifestly unfair. In a number of public libraries where books are kept out regularly two weeks, all new books must be returned within one week. It would seem, therefore, as our correspondent suggested, that some distinction might be established in our own library between...
...gymnasium at Tufts, although now completed, still remains unused owing to the unsettled condition of the rules which are to govern...