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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Since 1884 complete tables have not been compiled, but enough is known to show that while the total strength of the best developed student is not higher than the remarkable figure of 1884, there are among the students now in college no less than 200 whose total strength is higher than the best man in 1880, while the average in the whole university shows a great advance in development over that of 1880. This fact illustrates better than anything else that can be said the thoroughly satisfactory practical results of the system of adjusting exercise to individual needs. - Cambridge Tribune...
...willing to give exclusive information, kindly state the number of books which you think will be needed in the respective courses. The committee are aware that the number is always more or less uncertain; but an approximate statement can be made. The committee trust that instructors will not make their estimates so liberal as to cause for the Society danger of serious loss because of an over-supply of books. When, however, the same books are to be used for successive years, less care need be exercised in this regard...
...undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible...
...idea that putting college men into a boat and making them row ten miles a day without sharp coaching is no longer tenable, still less is it possible to deny the merits of the sliding seat. Hanlan could never have made the time he has without this Yankee notion. It is now frequently balanced on glass balls that permit it to move with the least possible friction as the oarsman stretches forward to grasp the water...
...matter of no little difficulty to fill Columbia's place satisfactorily. As to Columbia's position in the matter, we believe no fair-minded person can call it in question. While it is now evident that her admission to the League was a mistake, it is no less evident that her management have done all in their power to fulfil their obligations. This we think is clearly shown by their offer to attempt insure the other associations against any loss through their resignation, by the division of the entire balance in their treasury. In conclusion we would say that...