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...upper-class crews have now been rowing at the Weld for nearly a week and are showing expected sings of improvement. Very little change in the make-up of the different crews has been made and as a result they are rowing very well together, considering the short time they have been on the water. The first Junior and Sophomore crews are rowing in the best form, and show an encouraging amount of snap and life...
...upper-class elevens seem almost evenly matched and should have a close and interesting game. The Freshmen, although handicapped by a slight unfamiliarity with their new signals, should defeat the Sophomores rather easily through their better team-work and heavier...
...combination between the two upper-class debating societies-the Union and the Forum is now within the range of probabilities. Some months ago committees were appointed by both societies to devise a plan of consolidation. After lengthy consideration this joint committee drew up a report favorable to the scheme, which report provided that the new organization should be named either the "Harvard Union" or the "Harvard University Debating Society...
...intention to discourage any improved scheme of discipline which attempts to solve the problem, but to point out that what is going to make the Freshman realize his responsibility, what is going to make him attend to business, is not mere discipline, but upper-class discountenance of his failure to make himself useful. Of what good are his endeavors in athletics; of what benefit to him or any one else his ambition for social distinction, if he is on the road to probation...
...abilities are not sufficient to gain for them admission into the Forum or Union on account of the great competition for membership. If admission to the Union and Forum was open only to undergraduates more men would be able to make them, but in the membership of these two upper-class clubs there is a large percentage of men from the Law and Graduate Schools, men who have had training and practice in debate in other colleges as well as in Harvard. It certainly would not be wise to limit these clubs to undergraduates. Therefore some "new organizations should...