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...rowing 38 and Harvard about 28. At that rate almost throughout the race, the visiting crew easily drew away from the Harvard eight, and at no time was the outcome in doubt. Even at the finish, with Yale far in the lead, Harvard failed to raise the stroke and shorten the distance between the two shells...
...order to shorten the winter track season, the 780-yard relay race with Pennsylvania, which was announced to take place at Hartford, Conn., on March 1 has been cancelled. The short distance relay team will race the B. A. A. at the Coast Artillery meet to be held in the South Armory, Boston, on January...
...still on trial; if it can evolve a system which will develop broad-minded processes it will succeed; but the problem is at present complicated in the larger universities by the presence of professional schools, which, by drawing men away from college in three or even two years, shorten the period in which they have the opportunity for acquiring this wide scope, and thereby stunt their intellectual development...
...inclined to be short, and does not finish with sufficient drive. Sargent still shows a tendency to be late on the recovery, but errs less in this respect on the port than on the starboard side. Cutler does not straighten his arms at the catch and is inclined to shorten his slide...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...