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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training. The experience the last three years has proved that changes are often necessary as late as May or June. There will be no substitutes competent to take places on the regular crew unless they have had the same advantages the crew has had. These they can only obtain by rowing with a full eight and by receiving regular instruction. Moreover, a man from whom little was expected in the gymnasium, often proves to be an excellent oarsman on the water. The possibility of promotion and the certainty of instruction would stimulate the second eight to greater efforts, and some...
...judgment, impolitic, if not unjust, to require attendance at prayers of all undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom I gave permission, at his father's request, to be always absent, become immediately regular and punctual in coming; he had, it appears, complained only of the compulsion, and was willing...
...been the fault of the gentlemen who composed the club that its record of late has been so uneventful. They have been working, as it were, with tied hands, owing to their inability to secure proper grounds on which to practice their favorite sport. Their efforts to obtain better accommodations have at last, however, been crowned by success, and with new and beautiful grounds it is but fair to expect the club to take a prominent position in athletics this season. Last fall the club rather surprised itself and the rest of the college by winning a very creditable victory...
...juniors may be said to lack energy or snap, more regularity in the stroke should be obtained. Although the second eight is not rowing in as good form as the first eight, it is highly probable that some of the men who are strong and heavy will obtain seats in the boat. In the absence of Harris, who is a candidate for the university crew, Dewey is being tried for the position of stroke. For a new man, he is rowing in good form and sets an even stroke...
...Association members of the Glee Club and Piertian Sodality can obtain their shingles at Roberts Hall at rehearsals of the Glee Club, the time of which is announced on University...