Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last few days the crew have been rowing with the seats all connected by a wooden rod. This is only a temporary scheme to teach the new men the proper idea of the recover. This was also tried for a short time on the '84 crew before they went on the water and it was given up as useless. The sophomore crew in 1883 rowed in the class races with a similar arrangement, but found it very unsatisfactory-they came in third. The plan is only intended to be temporary of course but it is rather interesting to watch...
...Divinity Schools will observe Monday as a holiday. The college proper has taken no steps in this direction...
...this age of special research the college laboratory is an indispensable agent in the work of personal investigation to which modern students are devoted. This work of investigation is expensive, and it is only the richly endowed colleges that can afford to fit out proper laboratories. At such a rich college, then, as Columbia one expects to find laboratories in which some of the scientific investigation of the day is being carried on. Not even here can such good results be obtained as in Germany where investigators like Dr. Koch receive liberal subsidies from the government...
...later made attendance on lectures more compulsory, and obliged men to return to college on the prescribed days. Everything tends toward the more direct supervision of the undergraduate, which is for the best if not carried too far. When the tone of the college has been raised to the proper point, it will be harmful for the Faculty not to recognize the fact. There is a limit to the amount of beneficial supervision just as there is a point where supervision is necessary...
...last includes all men who entered before 6 o'clock last evening. It is very probable that a few more names will be added. The entries are made thus early that they may be forwarded to the handicapping committee of the A. A. U. and the proper handicaps given to each...