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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the blanks be filled out immediately. We cannot but regret that the Secretary and Class Committee have determined to hold on to this ancient method of compiling the class history. The Secretary of a late class, in a letter to the Crimson a few months ago, showed at length that the "lives" amount to little more than a farce. "Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness...
...time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just before the races; nor have the prizes offered been of a sufficiently high grade to induce men to train any length of time for them. Consequently the races are more or less uninteresting, and the general interest in rowing is lessened. Mr. Blakey has offered to sell the boats and oars and lease of the house for twenty-five hundred dollars, and this can be paid in two years' time...
...seems unable to get down between his legs when on the full reach. Stow constantly fails to keep his shoulders firmly back, and has a trick of meeting his oar. He and Simmons, while strong promising men, are still too green to be fairly criticised. Preston's extraordinary length of limb renders it impossible to discuss his rowing on the same principles with that of the others, and the writer has not had an opportunity to give to him the requisite additional attention...
...happy to see that others beside undergraduates have at length come to the conclusion that the load of mathematics under which Freshman classes have so long tottered should be considerably lessened. The Examining Committee have reported that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and that a further diminution of mathematics in the Freshman year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which...
...length of their revels, lest ever they weep...