Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long enough to learn the difficult art of watermanship. It cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection which they reached in former years. This lack of time upon the water presses hardest upon the freshman crew, who are all new men, and need a longer time to get into condition for shell rowing. All the crews, except the freshman, are now using sliding seats in barges, and will enter their shells in a few days...
...cover the ground laid down in English VII. Even under the lecture system a half course which meets but once a week cannot attempt anything but a cursory and wholly unsatisfactory examination of a few of the more prominent writers of the period under study. While there is no need to call in question the method of teaching pursued in English VII, the method has only shown the weakness of the course as a successful literary view of a century of great writers. Had the lecture system which was so successfully pursued during the first half year been continued...
...whose only fault was that he defended himself too well to please his critics; if criticisms are to be made, they should be both temperate and impersonal, else the college publications will fall to as low a level as the daily press. Above all, there is no need of singling out a freshman for especial criticism, when there are three upper ciassmen who are equally capable...
...account of the illness of John Smyth, the carpenter at the boat house, the barges of the other crews, which were in need of repairs, could not be used. The sophomores, however, rowed in pair oars and singles...
...topics connected with the debates of the Union on which the President has shown himself fully prepared when asked to speak on them in other places. The Union recently debated the change of requirements for admission, and the votes taken at that time show that the students at large need to be enlightened on that subject before they unanimously support the stand taken by our faculty...