Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusual one. Without a boat in which we could row a race, still we owed $206 on one that had been bought in 1886. An outcome of our long credit system arising from a lack of proper financial support! The experiment of trying an English boat was thought expedient. It was not safe, however, to trust wholly to an innovation, so a native shell had to be ordered at the same time. This increased expenses, of course, but if the college realized the importance of having a good boat for its crew to sit in, I am sure it would...
Then our correspondent informs us that "it was deemed expedient" to get an English shell, but, as it would not do to rely entirely on this innovation it was thought wise to buy another American shell. Either we are absolutely thick-headed or else there is some flaw in the reasoning of men who "deemed it expedient" to get an English shell and still found it necessary to buy a new American shell. Nothing is farther from us than to wish to have the chances of our crew in any way injured by a fear of spending the necessary money...
...January number of the Monthly is replete with the results of deep and earnest thought, results that should go far towards refuting the charge of superficialness and triviality which has been made-sometimes with justice-against the modern literary productions at Harvard. To any one taking up this number of the Monthly it must occur that here is something worth reading-solid, good, careful work, and interesting matter. The editors are to be congratulated upon beginning the new year so well...
...care and repair on the buildings. There was a difference of opinion among the faculty and management whether the change in room rents should be made at once, or whether there should be a series of increases of rent extending over an indefinite period of time, and it was thought best to make the change all at once, and by this means increase the revenue about $4,700. The rents of some of the rooms have been slightly decreased, but the majority of them have been increased...
...will be needed in the eleven, the nine, the crew, and the Mott Haven team. The places where we have thought ourselves the strongest will be vacant and the call will be for new material. It is the classes left in college who must respond to this appeal. It is needless to say that '89 and '90 realize the responsibility thrown upon them, but the freshmen should be reminded that they too must put their shoulders to the wheel. Every man who has the welfare of the college at heart should go to the gymnasium...