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...your second inquiry, about Sabbath attendance at church, I should desire the fuller light that I should have to get, were I elected an overseer, from my associates, before finally making up my mind. Everything, or rather many things, have changed greatly since I was an undergraduate-the age of students among them...
Advices from Columbia say that the interest in the freshman crew is increasing. The number of men in training is twenty-one. The average age of the candidates is 17 1-2. As several of the men are very light, the average weight is only 150 lbs. The average of the twelve heaviest men is 159 5-6. The Spectator says of them...
...very important that our colleges should be well governed, and to this end the conduct of the students should be in keeping with the spirit of the age. It should be assumed that the college professor is a man capable of self-government, and not a foolish old person requiring guardians and nurses. The time has gone by when a professor needed to be treated lid a school boy. It is true, that the professor, living a comparatively secluded life, is ignorant of many things-such, for instance, as the proper odds to lay on any given crew or ball...
...speaker next dwelt on the severity of the tests to which men professedly devoted to total abstinence are sometimes put. Theses trials must be looked for by those who depart from the ordinary tenets of the age. As Emerson expressed it, "There has never yet been found an easy way to perform heroic conduct." The lecturer recommended Summer's advice to Stanton, "stick...
...Union club; C. C. Nichols of Harvard; E. P. Cottle, of Yale; S. J. Poe and H. W. Hall, of Princeton; J. C. Gerndt, formerly of N. Y. U., and J. A. Stewart of Chicago Calumets. This list includes the twelve regular and two substitutes. The average age of the members is 23 years 4 months; the average height, 5 feet 9 1-2 inches; and the average weight 153 pounds...