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...chief objections to the rowing tanks in the Gymnasium is that the water cannot be made to circulate rapidly enough to imitate the motion of a shell. A plan which will probably be adopted is an endless chain of paddles to quicken the circulation of the water, to revolve in the inner trough on each side of the boat by steam power. If this plan proves practicable it will greatly lessen the drudgery of practice...
...Student Volunteer Work is one of the natural effects of the influences increasingly in operation, of late years, at Harvard. As study becomes ever freer and more invigorating, and the appeal to purpose more effective, the horizon of the student broadens and his pulses quicken with a desire to be of some account to his fellow men. The turning of the thought of the time more and more to the welfare of the masses is doubtless an influence from without, affecting in this same direction the university and the student The result, thoroughly inevitable and legitimate, is an unaffected humanitarian...
...purpose of the Catholic Club generally stated is twofold: First, to promote the religious interests of the Catholic students of Harvard, to assist in every way possible Catholic young men who purpose coming to Harvard, and to receive them upon their admission. Secondly, to quicken the spirit of Christianity among the students. The club meets once a month, when it is addressed by prominent men, both lay and clergy. Twice during the year public lectures are given in Sanders Theatre...
...would be glad to see observed. Whenever and wherever "Fair Harvard" is sung in a gathering of Harvard men, it should be sung in chorus of all present. The noble song of the College will be dearer to the students when they are thus familiar with it, and will quicken their love for Alma Mater as it does not now when it seems to belong to the Glee Club rather than to the whole College...
...Harvard who gave themselves to the country in the war for national existence, the war for justice, law and liberty; the foundations of civilization. They have left us a noble example and an heroic tradition. It is well to cherish and to hand on that tradition, that it may quicken the immagination and lift the spirit of each new generation of Harvard...