Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following list has been carefully revised since last week. It is as complete now as such a list can be made at this time, and includes, we believe, the names of the whole Freshman class...
EVERY one knows how absurd this is, but it may serve, together with the letter upon boating which we publish this week, as a text for some remarks upon what the reporter calls our "enthusiasm." That we were not, last year, as enthusiastic over our crew as we should have been, is an admitted fact, and this gives a reason for the existence of such charges in regard to the training of the crew as are made in the letter referred to. No one can expect men to be very rigid in their self-discipline when it makes no apparent...
...spite of the decline of interest in boating, we see a ray of light breaking on the horizon. The letters we publish this week upon the subject of boating show that there is somewhere an interest in rowing. To turn this dawning spirit in the right direction, to so direct it that it may show us the way to victory, is what we should now give our attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions...
...prospect, nevertheless - of a shooting-match next spring between the two colleges. This should act as an incentive to all those who shoot: last year we saw how rapid the improvement was, when the practice of the club was regular. We hope a target will be up within a week...
...instructors, almost without exception, have favored us during the past week with preliminary remarks." We have been told that this or that elective is not for loafers; that whoever elects this course for a "soft thing" will find himself deceived; that this University has had "enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands...