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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from the old velocipede. Two chapters are devoted to a full description of the manufacture and mechanics of the machine, and another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club, and an excellent index ends the book. We have no doubt that this work will...
...SHOULD like to remonstrate against the publication of the names of those who present themselves at the examinations for Honors. As a number of the candidates are always unsuccessful, it would be much better to wait till the list of those who obtain Honors is published, instead of printing the names of the unsuccessful candidates as well. A man who undergoes the labor of preparing for these examinations, and yet fails, is naturally sensitive about having his failure made known, and I can say for myself that I should have had much more hesitation about going in had I known...
...will be sure to prove very interesting. They have agreed to start promptly at ten o'clock, and so everybody who wishes to see the race will have to be present at that hour. We present to our subscribers with this number a programme of the races and a list of the men on each crew. All who wish to secure good places at the Union Boat-house should be present at an early hour, as the accommodations are decidedly limited, and the crowd is likely to be very great...
...amount of "true scholarship," as distinguished from studying for marks and honors, will also be much diminished. Even the most careless reading of the article shows an inconsistency in the writer's position; for if, as he asserts, the new honors "will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts," it is extremely unlikely that these worthless honors will be such unusually strong inducements to work as to "double the amount of studying for marks...
...honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted to encourage study. The writer, at least in the first part of his article, seems to think they are not; that because so many men will receive the lower grades of honors, the list will have no interest to any one. But it is not easy to see how the interest felt in honors which four or five men or which ten or twelve men only succeed in winning is to be materially diminished by the fact that fifty or sixty students win an entirely different...