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...beyond what is annually said in its condemnation by both professors and students. The thought that most naturally suggests itself, however, is one of wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton, Professor Child, and Professor White, besides many others have particularly expressed the most positive opinions on the subject...
...accounts of the Thanksgiving game and the freshman game in the News of Monday seems to be a revival of the old-time Yale characteristics, sensationalism and unfairness. A year ago we called attention to remarkable effusion which the News reporter, inspired almost to dizziness by this sensationalism, had given to an awe-stricken public. Since then there has been no marked cropping out of this inspiration until now, when again we read of the "heavenly color" which appeared to the coaches. But this is not so noticeable; it is simply silly. What does exhibit the real Yale spirit...
...first given its name of Yaleism by one of our correspondents, and we hold the same position this year. Foot-ball with all its roughness can be made a gentlemanly game, and a game that we need not feel ashamed to take our friends to see. Several years ago it was such a game, and as the Princetonian so plainly showed, as it gradually loses its gentlemanly character, it loses its popularity...
...prevailed in some four or five other of the "Public Schools" which have come to be regarded by those not practically acquainted with the general system of classical education in England as specimens of the whole. This is a very unfortunate mistake, caused mainly by the Commissioners some years ago having made a report to Parliament based almost solely on those six or seven well known and aristocratic schools, which still clung to the old classical system long after most important and liberal reforms had been introduced into the great body of the "Grammar" or endowed schools of the country...
...most remarkable how the very spirit of university life has changed in the last two centuries in every way Two centuries ago does not appear to one somehow as being such a great length of time as the changes they have brought about in college life would indicate. And yet with all their oddities we can not refuse "our admiration for the simple tastes and inexpensive habits of our forefathers as we find them recorded in those pages...