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...acquire after leaving. To be a broad and liberally educated man, one must know a little of everything, and some one thing well. If we undertake to shape our course through college with the idea of a specialty, and make every secondary study a direct companion to the main branch, we shall undoubtedly come out narrow-minded, pedantic scholars, who, prejudiced toward their own branches, know not enough of the branches of others to give them a charitable recognition. Many are the evils which arise from men choosing too hastily and blindly their electives. We may say that...
...heavy team." We think that by its energy and perseverance in the face of indifference and discouragement, the Lacrosse Team has proved incontestably its right to the support and approval of the College. In these champion flags it has the very best possible plea for existence; for no branch of athletics which represents us so creditably in our contests with other colleges can afford to be abolished. We admire the pluck of our Lacrosse men, and are glad to offer them our heartiest congratulations for their success thus far and our best wishes for the future...
...Owing to a misunderstanding about the hour the number of spectators was not large; but there was considerable enthusiasm expressed, and the occasion was by no means uninteresting. Lacrosse seems to be gradually gaining favor, and it is not improbable that it will become firmly established as an acknowledged branch of college athletics...
...other men; and, as the most rudimentary form of identification is that which is made possible by externals, - peculiarities of dress, manner, and speech, - we will proceed to lay down a few rules, and touch upon a few points which will be found invaluable for the beginner in this branch of the subject. In the first place (this is a fundamental, as Cromwell would have said), never take a man at his own estimate of himself, nor at the world's. His own estimate is always either too high or too low; the world's is always an intensifying...
...Harvard, notwithstanding the great advantages which the large number of students and our system of study give in pursuing outside work, we undoubtedly fall below that standard of excellence in our athletic and social affairs that would naturally be expected of us. This failing, in both branches, is due in great measure to that system which throws upon a few prominent men the management of the many different interests. But more important than that even, in the case of some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History...