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...have received a communication bearing rather hard on the two Sophomore societies, the Institute and the Athenaeum. It accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then...
Bowie was the best runner, both in build and action. He showed excellent condition, and finished the race little distressed...
...public life, which our universities do not now furnish, but which would aid young men, animated by an ardent wish, to have an honorable part in the determination of great questions of law, government, and social science, and not incapacitated by an inordinate longing for place? "The preparation for action which I should desire would have in view chiefly two fields of usefulness to the nation. . . . . One of these is in the direction of the periodical press; the other is that of public speaking with effect...
...momentous and ever-expanding problems presented by the social and political movements of the time" open to the coming generation a field for action wider and more varied than any it has been the fortune of human benefactors in the past ever to tread; and besides the primary duty of solving these problems there will always be need to counteract the "specious and superficial sophistry of the half-fledged demagogues of the hour." It is therefore at once a "dictate of prudence and a precept of patriotism," to guide aspiring youth so that they may adequately grapple with the difficulties...
...University crews was passed. Nothing was said about admitting men from the Freshman class in scientific schools to row together with the Academic Freshmen. Moreover, no Freshman crew sent delegates to the convention at Worcester, so that even the frail plea that, by consenting to the action of the convention, the Freshman classes are bound to follow the lead of the University crews is taken away. The only Freshman present, we understand, was the president of the convention, Mr. Cook of Yale, and he represented the College, not his class...