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...entire course of study demanded for admission to Harvard, and therefore Exeter will cease to be a special feeder for this college. Although this statement is strictly true, its conclusion gives the impression that Exeter has made some change in her course which will greatly diminish the number of men she sends to Harvard. This impression is so erroneous as to require some notice. Evidently it is impracticable for Exeter or for any other academy to compel students to fit for Harvard, if they prefer to cut short their preparatory course and enter some other college; and, recognizing this...
...certainly seems strange that the Freshmen, after challenging Cornell, show so little interest in rowing as to have only some eight men in regular training, while their opponents have eighteen. There is material for a good crew in the class, and it is time that it should be fully brought out. It requires some self-denial to follow out a steady course of training through the winter months, but this is the true secret of success. Let '81 take a proper interest in the matter, and she will send an eight against Cornell which will do her honor...
WITH the first number of this volume the editors of the Crimson beg to announce to their readers the introduction of a column devoted exclusively to amateur sports. The need of some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will...
Perhaps the saddest of all rules, if we consider the effect it would have upon society men, is the following...
...meeting of the contestants for the Freshman crew in Room S, upon Wednesday, twenty men presented themselves, and were divided into three crews of sixes, each division having a captain...