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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been built for running, nature would have furnished them with four legs instead of two, and accordingly took the horse-cars back to Cambridge. After passing by the Brighton abattoir, the scent was found leading down Brighton avenue, but as darkness began to set in, it was voted to abandon the scent and strike out for the first side street which lead to Cambridge. When the hounds arrived there the bags were found, and the break was made across Boylston bridge and up that street to the gymnasium. The first hares in were Cogswell, '88, Harlow, '88 and Miles...
...suggest that students are, after all, merely young men temporarily removed from homes, and that they are practicing here, without violent change, the habits which the home has formed. Those who have been accustomed to large expenditure spend freely here; those of quiet and considerate habits do not lightly abandon them. But it may seem that the smallest of the sums named is large for a poor man. It may be believed that even after restraint and wisdom are used, Harvard remains the college of the rich. There is much in our circumstances to make it so. An excellent education...
Second, let the faculties of colleges abandon the idea of control altogether, confining themselves entirely to the scholarship of students and making no note whatever of conduct. Throw students entirely upon their own responsibility...
...Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form of the nude figure upon the artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many men had the effect of furnishing a large number of good models. It is almost impossible for our modern artists to get even one very good model. The Palaestra became...
...university" conferring the degree. This is still and will always be necessery, and the conservatives have a complete remedy as against Harvard by leaving to that college the naked A. B., and uniformly writing A. B. Yale, A. B. Princeton, etc., etc. No one asked that Harvard should abandon the degree of M. D. when it resolved to examine for admission to its Medical School only those who had had a liberal education. This really put a new and higher value on the degree, though, as before, it simply stood for graduation from the School. - ED. NATION...