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...action and the failure of the first attempt he continues: "The best thing to be done, therefore was to collect as many colleges as possible and see what could be done. The conference was called, and, after much debate, the resolutions were adopted. The method of consideration was of attack, and apparently every contingency was provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common one, but a graded distinction of ordinary professionals by which those who teach for a living are not excluded, but it reaches those who give public exhibitions, or exercise tendencies which...
...wishes to play ball or row, the faculty have no right to say that he shall not. It is a matter for the students to decide whether there is any objection to a man's playing longer than four years. More, it seems to us to be a direct attack upon Harvard as a university. As such, it is right that all men connected with any department should have as much right to play on one of the teams as a man in the academical department...
...pursuit of what he thought was the retreating enemy, he suddenly found himself confronted by Jackson's force. Pope was utterly ignorant of the fact that Longstreet had united with Jackson and now the right wing of the Confederate army. Pope's order to Porter to advance and attack the flank of the enemy, "who are now in the woods before us," was given in utter ignorance of Longstreet's position. To obey Pope's order, Porter would have been obliged, with his ten thousand men, to overcome Longstreet's twenty-five thousand. On the other hand, by holding...
Among the interesting relics belonging to the late Wendell Phillips was a collection of pikes and walking sticks. One pike had been carried by a man who took part with John Brown in the attack on Harpers Ferry. Of the canes one belonged to Daniel O'Connell, the Irish agitator, and another had been the property of Charles Sumner...
...high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...