Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is no disputing the fact that the old-time enthusiasm in boating has given way to a state of apathy. The Dunham Club, which supplies excellent facilities for boating practice, has seen its best days. The inter-class races as a rule are spiritless contests in which the participants are the only ones very much interested. Boating has been on a decline, and men have gotten their exercise from other sources. The wide popularity of tennis has taken many good men who might have had their exercise on the water. The crew men and those within the aquatic circle...
...more systematic and energetic work on the part of former instructors. Perhaps the English Department illustrates this improvement as well as any. Still the departments of French, German, Political Economy, and History should not go unmentioned. No department can be said to have suffered recession. Advance has been the rule, while retrogradation has been unknown. Finally, with regard to the relations between faculty and students, the improvement has been very marked. A Faculty-Student Conference Committee has been established, and has already shown itself extremely successful. The need of co-operation was felt, and has partially been...
There is little to criticize in the form in which our crew is rowing at present. As a rule there is a good deal of life in the boat; there is little or no hang at either end of the stroke; and improvement has been made in keeping the pressure on all through the stroke, so that there is little let up. All the men have more or less serious individual faults. Bow: rowed in '87 freshman crew; chief fault is tendency to raise his hand at the finish instead of drawing them in straight; this makes him finish rather...
...written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money may lead to that higher and truer motive whereby men are prompted to write from very pleasure, and from their actually having something to write about. Here at Harvard, literary activity is the exception rather than the rule. Still it is true that in this respect, the present year goes far ahead of many previous years, Let us hope that next year will outstrip this. No persons would welcome greater literary ability in the college at large more than the at present over-worked editors of the college...
...recent addresses, that a college should not be turned into a professional school, that specialism in its narrow sense should not be pursued in a four years' college course. While every one should be prompted by some one purpose in choosing his electives, yet that purpose should not rule supreme. The line of courses pursued should not at college be a sharply defined line all of one color, but rather a line, it is true, easily distinguished, but here and there shaded off even into entirely different colors. These are not the words of the address, only the ideas...