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...possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time for the press generally to magnify and distort the actual occurrences, which need no misrepresentation in order to be condemned. The blame belongs to the Freshman Class alone; they can best alone for their folly by preventing a like occurrence...
NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination...
...believe there are more than thirty boarders at Memorial beyond the seating capacity; and, although we are told that this number helps to reduce the cost of living, there are few of us who would not prefer to pay the few cents' difference per week, to incur the actual discomfort. The association must remember that, two or three years ago, a general exodus took place from Memorial when an attempt was made to impose inferior food upon the members; and it is possible that the present falsely economical policy may meet with similar failure. It is uncomfortable to be packed...
...regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing in those special branches of study, or else the present plan of determining college rank by an average mark ought to be entirely abolished, and a final examination for a degree substituted, as in the German universities...
Anyhow, I am bound by my thirteen years' personal experience of the actual and possible dangers, discomforts, and disasters connected with attempts at "mixing things" in intercollegiate boat-race management, to plead as eloquently as I can against the rowing of any such race on the Thames during the seven days which precede June 30, 1879. Without pretending to assert that the rowing of it there at that time would necessarily and inevitably confuse and upset the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency...