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...more difficult task, because he had to oppose a professional system of marked success. Yet Mr. Wray's success here and his superiority over his amateur predecessors is unquestioned. Track has always seemed to be a sport where the professional trainer is necessary. Thus we have on the one hand the known superiority of the professional coach over the amateur, and on the other the possibility of an unhealthful influence ethically...
Lists of 40, 20, or 10 men for special table groups should be sent before Tuesday, April 2, to F. Schenek. Claverly 18, Class songs and designs for menus should be submitted by Saturday, March 16, instead of March 23, as previously announced. Everyone is urged to hand in contributions in order to have a good song and a good card. There will be only informal speaking at the dinner this year...
...unusually strong this year, and has already defeated the University team by the score of 18 to 6, and this week defeated Yale. The University team, besides being defeated by Columbia and Yale, has lost a game to Princeton and forfeited one to Pennsylvania, but on the other hand has beaten Cornell twice, Princeton, and Pennsylvania by forfeit...
Under the changes brought about by the revolution, there was no material difference in the condition of the workingman; merely a political change resulted. Since the revolution, on the other hand, the workingman has experienced great material changes. These are due solely to the progress of science and not to political interference. The most important element in the consideration of this matter, has been the changes in money values. Two hundred dollars in the year 1200, would be worth only 74 cents today...
Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...