Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them now. This may be very true, but there is no proof of it, since competition is not open. Until this is the case, a man who takes a scholarship cannot say that he has won it entirely by his learning...
...another column will be found an article pointing out the true cause of the decline in rowing interest. This article fully represents the opinion of the Editors on this matter, and should have the attention of all students who care to see boating kept up at Harvard...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...
...classic shades with a better education than the most unremitting toil would have obtained for him here. Whether this is the view which the writers in our papers take or not, I heartily join with them in the wish that Harvard may be able soon to call itself a true University...
...rewrite six themes, is by no means easy, especially when the subjects assigned are of the abstruse nature now coming into fashion. The writing of a few themes in the Freshman year would give instruction which there is little reason for postponingtill the Sophomore year. The Freshmen, it is true, have at present as much work required of them as they can perform; but if another suggestion of the Committee, proposing to lessen the amount of mathematics, be adopted, room could easily be made for the themes...