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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally, is noticeable. This fault must be overcome if the men don't want to be used up in a short distance. The men must not hurry stroke. The crew is sitting up to its work better, and there appears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Crew. | 2/21/1888 | See Source »

...would seem to be a very simple thing to begin the vacation on the Saturday before Easter and have college reopen on the following Monday week-thus having the double advantage of giving us Easter at home and of starting in again at the beginning of a week, instead of in the middle. We hope the faculty will consider the plan favorably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1888 | See Source »

...condition to do so, and in many cases the principal, aware of the school's deficiencies, discourages preparation for them. Thus the New York private school girl, in too many instances, passes her school years in acquiring an ill-regulated and superficial mass of knowledge instead of in being trained to those habits of thoroughness which are so necessary to women when called upon to take part in the practical affairs of life, whether as managers of households or as earners of bread. Therefore the committee begs that all who are interested in the education of girls will contribute toward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attempt to Raise a Scholarship to Help Women Through Harvard. | 2/14/1888 | See Source »

...accordance with a suggestion that appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON, the managers of the Athletic Association made arrangements so that the weekly contests in high jumping, putting the shot, etc., should come on Thursday evenings instead of Saturday afternoons. It was hoped that by this means more men would find it convenient to enter the costests. Contrary to this expectation, however, at the meeting Thursday evening only those men appeared who had entered the contests on Saturday afternoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1888 | See Source »

...Trinity Tablet has been placed in charge of the three upper classes, instead of only juniors, as formerly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/9/1888 | See Source »

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