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...battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game at Providence last year is not to be repeated...
...great objection now to college boating is that it takes up so much time. Any change would be ruinous that tended to increase the time required from crew men, especially from our best 'Varsity men, whom it is hard enough to keep at work anyway, and who would be the only ones qualified to coach. Gentlemen, require us to coach ourselves, and you add to what is already the most objectionable feature of college rowing. You make it impossible for crew men to do as well in their studies, and so you prepare the way for the eventual abolition...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The air is filled with denunciations of our faculty. Indignation meetings have been proposed, and dynamite will soon be resorted to. If, in spite of these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics...
During the winter, when the ground is continually thawing on the surface, it is ruinous to the turf to walk on it. But if the powers that reign over the college yard wish to keep the students from walking on the grass, the best way is for them to make walks that will be less muddy than the grass. That this can be done goes without saying. And if the sward we have been so proud of in the past looks rough and worn next Class Day, it will not be entirely the fault of the students, for the grass...
...pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold to the town of Cambridge, on condition that it should never...