Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine...
...crew have good control of the stroke, which is rather like that of '86 than '87, as the blades are carried back flat a little longer than last year. Of late they have got a better hold on the water at the beginning of the stroke, but the finish still falls short of being as clean as it should be. They have a magnificent swing, and at times good control of boat and slides. For the past two or three weeks a slower stroke-30 or 31 per minute-has been used than that which the crew rowed earlier...
...Last meeting to-night at 6.45. All members still in Cambridge please be present...
HOLMES HINKLEY, A. M., tutor for Harvard. Few hours still unengaged. 14 Kirkland Place, Cambridge...
...association might just as well charge one dollar admission and leave all the seats unreserved. We would strongly recommend a return to the old system of having three or four sections unreserved. By doing this, the base-ball management will escape the maledictions of the students and will still have enough in its treasury to buy its blazers, bate and balls. The action of the management on Saturday was simply outrageous, and it is to be hoped that better arrangements may be made for the next game...