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...should be a matter of entire indifference to the College whether a man with means or without attain a higher rank; its function is simply to bring out of students what is mentally valuable; beyond that it should have no concern. But, unfortunately, our College governors seem to take it for granted that, because a man is independent of their assistance, his brains are inconsiderable; it is quite enough to let him pass quickly by, - run down hill, if he choose (and this, it is thought, in all probability he will do); his efforts towards firmness of purpose and self...
...beyond, the everywhere...
...famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which we may consider represented by the associates of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck) was more...
...American tendency to apply the name of "college" to every school that attempts to impart anything beyond the first rudiments of knowledge is well shown here. There are three hundred and thirty-five institutions mentioned in this Directory, which differ in everything but in name. At one of these institutions there are 1,330 students, and at another there are 7 students, but they are both called "colleges...
DEAR SIRS, - In the last number of your paper, and in fact for some time past, I have noticed several articles suggesting the idea of forming a Chess Club, but beyond this there seems to have been no active undertaking in the matter. From my own experience, and from the experience of those who have been members of the prominent chess-clubs in this country, I should judge that the forming of a club, and keeping the members interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears...