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...keep in touch with the life of the University and follow every changing phase of its development. They have the leisure to devote to the consideration of educational questions, and are in direct contact with education in its most progressive type. They come from families which have been college-bred for generations and in which sound educational instincts and traditions are assured. For all these reasons they seem better fitted to grapple the problems of management and government constantly arising for the consideration of the Board of Overseers...
...that they cannot tear themselves away from them. In a publishing-house, run on the large scale of many at the present time, a variety of openings is offered to just such men as these. If the applicant for a position in one of these houses be a college-bred man with a wide acquaintance with general literature and good judgment of its merits he may be given a trial at "tasting." a few of the multitude of manuscripts which are sent for publication, but which are not all accepted, of course. Again, if the applicant be found to have...
...theatre-goer who loves good dramatic literature or who takes pleasure in contemplating an eminently well-bred and well-dressed gentleman cannot but be delighted with "Beau Brummell" as Richard Mansfield shows him to the Globe Theatre audiences. There is an exquisite artistic delicacy in his impersonation of this most noted of English swells, and throughout the play the dialogue is admirable in its terseness and its polish. The delineation of the minor characters is excellent, and "Beau Brummell," as a play, is a piece of work at once literary and effective...
...meeting of the Y. M. C. A., which was held last night, was addressed by Rev. Mr. Reed, pastor of Hope St. Church, Springfield, and Mr. A. A. Stagg, of Yale. Mr. Reed gave a short sketch of the need of college-bred men for the Y. M. C. A. work of this country. Where in former times there were only two ways for consecrated men to do active and successful work, at present the number of opportunities for special work is almost infinite. And the kind of men needed for this work are men capable of working with...
...Reed was the first man to start a school for training men to take charge of the various Y. M. C. A. gymnasiums. And this idea is taking root all over the country, that a college-bred man is better able to influence young men, not only from an athletic point of view, but also from the religious stand-point...