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...often happens that students when about to leave college, are heard to deplore the fact that their education has been so much less broad and complete than they could have desired, and that certain sides of themselves seem altogether untouched by their college training, and certain subjects utterly uninvestigated. Such complaints were scarcely heard in the times when a defined course of study was requisite for a degree; then, the regrets were that such and such studies from which neither pleasure nor profit had been derived had consumed so much valuable time. All grounds for these regrets are now removed...
...sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body of broad minded men, and said that its presence was not lacking amongst us now. "These are the signs which shall mark the coming of the spirit of God, and which to-day shows the working of the divine power within us. Although these visions have often led to mistakes and excesses...
...Wheeler was not easy; it was hard. But it was so arranged that every man who took the examination was able to show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable. There were no catch questions of any sort whatever. The questions were broad, and represented every part of the work done in the course during the whole of the second half-year, and we do not commend too highly in saying that it is a model examination paper for this and other kindred courses...
...constitute Princeton's inter collegiate athletic team: Tug-of-war, Cowan, '88, Calhoun, '86, McClellan, '86, Jamison, '87; 100 yards, Griffith, '86; pole vault, H. Hodge, '88; mile run, Hamilton, '88, Carter, '88; 1-2 mile, Griffith, '86; Hammer, Adams, '86; shot. Cook, 89; mile walk, Thompson, '88; running broad jump, F. Spalding, '87; running high jump, F. Spalding, '87; 120 yards, hurdle, F. Spalding...
...Broad jump - Smith, '86; Bradley...