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...capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years...
...slang words express, it is true not in pure Saxon, a class of ideas not to be expressed in ordinary language. In other words we have slowly acquired a dialect, comparable to that of Romany, which is peculiar to Harvard and naturally adapted to express minor Harvard ideas. To attempt to eradicate this system of language would be to attempt to curtail our expression of thought, for many of the terms have acquired a significance which it would be vain to seek in any words distinctively more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less...
...attempt to change the name of Yale College to Yale University, is meeting with decided opposition from many Yale alumni who consider Yale College a "name of honor and glory...
...sure, a few here may have enough depth and intensity of feeling seriously to attempt poetry. But the rest of us, the majority, would do better to forget a first love, which we never had; cease wishing to die; and write of what we know and feel...
...which is to make boxing cheaper for the students interested therein. It opposed such a measure on the ground that it ensured a favor only to "many students" and not to the university at large. This is true, but it must be remembered that the success of this attempt would give more men the enjoyment of sparring. Practice of this kind is, as all other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence...