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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present arrangement of the hours for meals, especially at this season, is least suited to accommodate the majority. So long as we recognize a Tabular View, we shall have but two unoccupied hours throughout the day, and these hours, from two to four o'clock, though the best for out-door exercise, are still quite unavailable while we dine at one, for it must be injurious to pull an oar or swing a bat so soon after eating. To exercise later is to be on the river or at Jarvis at sunset, and this in October is far from healthy...
...coming more directly to the subject, Professor Everett treats successively of the two elements of our civilization, - life and thought. In speaking of life, he compares the "tendency of our society towards individualization," "based upon what may be called the arithmetical view of life, that regards society as made up of units, any one of which is equal to any other," with the patriarchal state that existed among our distant Aryan forefathers. In the latter, each individual found a place allotted him which he was expected to fill with fidelity and loyalty, and in which, "while true to his position...
...here the author justifies a true use of the word "teleology," opposing an utter denial of final causes, as he has already censured those who regard everything merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur...
EDITORS MAGENTA, - In view of the new boating-system at Harvard, you asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed...
...others, almost, if not quite as deserving as the successful candidates. Among these may be mentioned N. Taylor, H. B. Richardson, and F. C. S. Bartlett, all of whom gave finished performances. The speaking as a whole was highly creditable; much more so than would seem possible in view of the total lack of facilities for improvement afforded by the College. It is almost farcical that prizes should be given by the College for excellences which are wholly dependent on previous or outside instruction, or on natural ability. In fact, the most noticeable faults of the general speaking were such...