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...physique. It does not demand much brute force. It calls into use more muscles and functions of the human body than any other field game played today. Legs, arms, shoulders and chest are continually in use. It is particularly good as a lung developer. Lacrosse is admirably fitted to afford needful exercise to the average student...
...taught to write English before they come to college. Reform in this direction has been begun. The most effective way of hastening it would be by greatly stiffening the entrance examination and refusing to allow an entrance condition in English. Such measures are more extreme, however, than Harvard can afford. They would result in dwarfing the freshman class and sending crowds of disappointed candidates to other less severe colleges. But out of the question though this would be, we believe that the exertion of Harvard's strong influence, by a considerable increase in the severity of the entrance examination...
...grant that limbs are broken and lives lost; but we must remember that there is no form of life's activity which is not attended with risk. We close our eyes to all danger to limb and life when questions of business are concerned. If the world can afford to sacrifice the lives of men for commercial gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint...
...edition of Dante's complete works in a single volume, edited by the Rev. Dr. Moore, is soon to be issued from the Clarendon press, and will unquestionably afford a much better text of the prose works than any hitherto published. It will be a great boon to the student...
This lecture is one of a series recently began to afford some additional centre of interest to students and their friends. At present for students inviting their friends to a college tea, the glass flowers and vespers are the only attractions and it is feared that the vesper service is not always attended in the right spirit. A series of afternoon lectures entertaining and instructive has therefore been started and it is hoped that they may prove so attractive to students and their friends as to warrant their continuance next year. The afternoon hour for which these talks...