Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crews have commenced river practice, but your correspondent respectfully declines to criticise them, for more reasons than one. We are attempting a great deal of work this year in our aquatic campaign. It is our intention to support three crews, viz. : a 'Varsity eight to row Harvard at New London ; a 'Varsity four, for the Harlem and Passaic regattas, and possibly for the Childs Cup contest on the Schuylkill ; and last, but by no means least, a freshman eight to row the Harvard freshmen on the Harlem...
Over $5000 has been raised for the fund for the support of the family of the late Ko-Kun Hua. The fund will be invested here and the income will be sent to China...
...least, with his classmates. Reports from other colleges likewise show that faithful work generally is being done this year in rowing. This is surely the case with us ; and the steady work of our crews should certainly receive more recognition, and they themselves should receive a more liberal support throughout the college than can fairly be said to be accorded them at present. Our winter athletic meetings were certainly a success. But our correspondent's description of the enthusiasm and energy displayed at Columbia in the branch of general athletics will tend to show that the struggle for inter-collegiate...
...examinations should be abolished, is becoming more and more evident. That this fact is beginning to be appreciated by the public press, and to be discussed by them, is significant. The examination system has indeed been long established ; it has the prestige of the authority of European educators to support it. But in spite of this, it is fast proving itself unsuitable for American methods of instruction. The writer of the article on German student life in the last number of the Crimson, we fear, delivers a true commentary on American students, when he says that there is observable...
...realize to their cost if it should be removed, these men should come back to the hall at once. The directors have done their best, the corporation have done their best, the steward is doing his best. It only remains for the students at large to give their appreciative support and all will be well...