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Dates: during 1890-1899
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offered in each class: First prize in any case, second prize when three boats start, third prize when five boats start. All boats either hired or owned by a member of either club may compete for these prizes...
...chances of being advanced to a club table, at present 1 man in 3 gets to a club table in four years. Under the resolution it is true 144 men are added at the start, but how will it be in the future? Only about 1 man in 2 will get to the clubs, whereas if the other scheme is adopted, there will be an end to this computation of chances. Every man will be at a club table. When one man will reach a club table in four years there is no good reason why the other must remain...
...tables. By the directors' plan the number of men to a seat is reduced from 2 1-2 at present to 2. This will go far toward checking the crowdedness which is now justly complained of. Further, the chances of advance to a club table are increased. At the start 145 men are added to the club tables. Taking into account the number of men who leave the hall annually, there would be room at the club tables another year for more than half of those now at the other end of the hall. The number of seats...
...important article in the Monthly for May is by Professor Josiah Royce on "The Student of Philosophy." At the start he says: "I propose to speak, not of the study of philosophy in itself considered, but of the far too much neglected topic of the conditions that make it wise for any individual to become, in any more extended or elaborate sense, a student of philosophy." With this proposition before him, Professor Royce goes on through twelve pages of such delightful reading as is characteristic of him. His topic is timely and his discussion of it has the interest which...
...students are to give confidence to the team-and the team needs it badly,- the only effective way is to begin at the start. The power of cheering is not infinite. If other things are about equal it will turn the scale; but when one nine has the confidence that comes from a winning lead and the other the nervousness that comes from a threatened defeat, then cheering is about so much noise and nothing more. Let the cheering,- honest, hearty cheering, greet the nine when it comes out of the Carey Building, and from that time...