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...fight between a freshman and a professor's ten year old son occurred on the campus last Thursday noon. After a severe tussle the freshman gained the advantage. If the boy had been one year older he would have wiped up the slush with the '89 man. A snow ball is a very small thing to cause such a waste of physical energy. Cornell...
Ignorance of current events is a reproach often justly cast upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting...
...result. While this seems perfectly natural in regard to college life, it does seem curious that there should be practically nothing which should remind us of our school-life. Many of us probably have some unpleasant recollections of school. Who has not? But he must have been a curious boy indeed who did not manage to have a good time at school in spite of the teacher. It is true that fellows are not thrown so much together at a day school as they all are in Cambridge; but on the other hand they generally remain more than four years...
...Harvard graduates scholars, but our smaller colleges graduate men," is a remark not unfrequently heard. Many a boy has been sent to Amherst or Dartmouth because his parents, although acknowledging the superior educational advantages of Harvard, have thought to keep their sons from the corrupting influences of a great university. But one may fairly ask what goes to make up manhood? If withdrawal from temptations, association with none but the strictly virtuous, blissful ignorance of vice make a man, then Harvard indeed does not graduate men. There is vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does...
...Youth's Companion for 1886 there are to be four papers on advice to a boy entering college, by President Porter, President Eliot, President Barnard and Professor Tyler...