Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...assert that these contrivances necessarily bring out the pluck and endurance of a crew, although they may so do. However subtly a rowing-weight may be constructed, it can never be the counterpart of boat and oar. I therefore wished to suggest to the captains of crews to consider whether the "form" acquired at these machines would be deleterious to the "form" on the river; whether their effects would be depressing; and to pay due attention to such questions as the invigorating influence of timely repose...
...walks in the Yard have apparently been suffered, during the vacation, to take care of themselves. Whether they were looked out for or not, they are certainly now in a disgraceful condition. On Monday the slush could have been easily removed, and the fact that it was left to freeze takes away from the force of the argument that to chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again...
...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...
...four of these preliminary trials in one week. The object of each of the four examinations has tests of knowledge, and their object in pointing out the proper way of getting up the subjects, are then both alike unattained. It is a simple matter for an instructor to ask whether his division as any good reason for preferring to have their examination come one week or another. Let us hope that more of them will try the effect of putting such a question...
...clubs made it necessary with us. We earnestly hope, however, that the change here is only temporary, and that in the spring the former state of affairs will be restored. There is no good reason for the inability of our clubs to turn out first-rate six-oared crews. Whether there are sufficient reasons for the action of the small colleges, they of course know best...