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...Tuesday, April 3, using their old twisted shell; they will probably go into their cedar sometime this week. Several short brushes have taken place between the crews, the most noteworthy of these being the one between the Juniors and Freshmen in which the latter easily took the lead. This result created no little surprise among boating men at the boat house, and causes the freshmen to be regarded by the other crews as formidable rivals...
...above questions are intended of course, only as a general guide; any other information of interest will be accepted. Every man is earnestly urged to make some reply to these questions, even though not fully, bearing in mind that that the value of the result will be out of all proportion to the labor expended. Men whom I have been unable to see can get their blanks by applying to the janitor of their building, or at my own room...
Towards the end of the last college year the Harvard Total Abstinence League was organized and decided upon a plan of action. It is not until this evening, however, that any visible result of its existence can be seen. Whatever opinions one may hold as to the question of total abstinence, no one can doubt that the society has chosen the best and most persuasive way of spreading its principles. Few can afford to miss hearing the utterances of two such representative public men and sons of Harvard as Rev. E. E. Hale and Ex-Gov. Long on the important...
...increase of the influx of students to Harvard from these cities and the adjoining country is not to be expected. The adoption of the same plan by Yale, and more lately by some of the smaller New England colleges, has naturally acted somewhat as a check upon such a result. But the advertisement, the legitimate advertisement, for the university that follows upon this plan is a matter of no small account. As the Western States grow in wealth and in opportunities for higher education within their own borders, it will be but natural that they will more and more turn...
...Harvard, the number of men who have taken exactly similar courses throughout their college career is limited, and as a result there is no common bond of sympathy existing in the studies pursued. This fact will do much to explain why the college papers devote so much space to athletics, while other topics seem to be neglected. Athletics furnish the only common ground of interest to the majority of students...