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...whole season they have been considered fast for a freshman crew. To be sure they are very light, twenty pounds lighter than either of their opponents in the three cornered race but they are "sandy" and very quick. They will row in a shell made by Waters. The gravest criticism of the crew as a whole is a tendency to rush forward the slides, which gives a perceptible halt to the boat at the finish of every stroke. The blade work is excellent, although it is not always sustained...
...than the college itself. In fact the feeling is so strongly pronounced as to lead us to doubt whether the students have given the question more than a small part of the thorough consideration which has divided the Overseers and Faculty-bodies generally supposed to vote only after the gravest consideration-almost equally on the question...
...intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which the testimony of the senses does not confirm. And this is the gravest fault of this age which is continually demanding a sign...
...distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would still be one of the gravest of falsehoods: it would be a falsehood because it is meant to convey the impression abroad that the whole system of Harvard is wrong, that from its very position the University must have a fatal effect upon the characters of large numbers of men within its walls, that the attitude...
...Tompkins, '84, one of the best rushers Yale ever had, has left his home in New York State and is coaching the Yale eleven. He says their gravest faults are the careless manner in which they fall on the ball and their inability to hold the ball when rushing with...