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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them instruction. According to the papers he was found to be too inexperienced, and some of the men did not wish to go under his charge. The result is, that Mr. Camp confines himself to the nine, and the athletic association has hired Dole, their old professional trainer, to look after their track athletics and bicycle riders...
...things that would hardly be considered appropriate to a Harvard paper, but much of this is chargeable to the proverbial weakness of a first number. Typographically the paper is perfect. Altogether, although the paper is far below what we expected, and although we fear for its lasting success, we look for much improvement in the subsequent numbers, and wish it long life and prosperity...
...Many changes have been introduced since the first university race was rowed in 1829, and since the amateur sculling championship was founded in the following year. The old tub boats have developed into very different looking craft. Outriggers, sliding seats, self-acting rowlocks and steering sails, have all been successfully added, with divers other refinements of the boatbuilder's art; but the science of rowing remains after all, essentially the same, and the same bodily shape and muscular conformation are still usually to be observed in the most successful oarsmen. If we could confine our attention solely to the great...
...said to have suggested this epithet because of the resemblance in the aspect of the two cities, and perhaps this circumstance has had its influence upon the architecture of Edinburgh. But certainly the spirit of Athens does not require for its embodiment an acropolis or a temple. We must look beyond the natural or the structural advantages of a city if we would determine the conditions of academic success...
...writer is far from advising the abolishment of the national game as a college sport; but the he believes that the game must look for support to other reasons than those advanced by your paper. Its support must lie in the fact that a good game affords to thousands of spectators a wonderful exhibition of presence of mind, skill, quickness and force of action...