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...necessitate a turn. Moreover, although the University crew is composed of the best oarsmen in college, and is of course the representative eight, yet its course of training is far different from the one that would be adopted for a short race. For this reason the class crews are often able to keep up with the University for a short distance, as they are especially trained for short, quick spurts. It will therefore be readily apparent, that a crew can be selected from the class eights which will on the one and seven-eights course of the Charles, be even...
...stereopticon with great ease. Thus a number of different phases of a campaign or battle could be clearly set before the eyes of the audience. Difficult situations could thus be more readily grasped and a better idea of the lectures carried away when it is over. To see is often to understand, and if this plan can be carried out with no more or even less trouble than the present one we shall hope to see it adopted. If it should turn out more costly or troublesome than we think, we should not expect the society, which has done...
...often said that Oxford is the more famous of the two universities for movements and Cambridge for men, but the fact is that in most of the great movements for liberalizing the universities and extending their sphere of usefulness Cambridge has taken the lead and Oxford has reluctantly followed. The so-called "University Extension" movement is one conspicuous instance, and another was afforded by the debate in Congregation at Oxford on the proposal to open some of the university examinations to women. At Cambridge the women students have now for some few years enjoyed this privilege to the full...
...first arrangement was final, as no changes were made in subsequent years, although it often happened that the relative rank of the parents would vary. The dissatisfaction sure to be caused by such an arrangement and the extreme difficulty of making out the lists in an impartial manner can readily be imagined. The upper and lower members of the class were not so difficult to arrange, but the claims of the members who occupied a middle position, and they were in the majority, were uncertain and hard to settle satisfactorily...
...Reed's next argument is the old and worn out one, that if a race is run in heats the best man often does not win. This reason goes for nothing when it is considered that all short distance running championships, the one and five mile Bicycle Union bicycle championships, the one, five and ten mile Bicycle Union tricycle championships, are all run in heats. In 1883 the first and second mile in the five mile tricycle championships had to run four heats, i. e., 20 miles during an afternoon. In one of these heats the record was broken...