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...There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral discipline of no slight value. That a considerable portion of the leisure time of students is most profitably passed in athletic...
...corner stone of Sage College was laid with imposing ceremonies. There was much in the occasion to call earnest words from the distinguished men present, among whom may be mentioned Henry W. Sage, a man to whose liberality Cornell owes Sage College and much besides, Ezra Cornell, Chancellor Winchell of Syracuse University, Moses Coit Tyler, Goldwin Smith, Colonel Homer B. Sprague, President Angell of Ann Arbor, Dr. W. D. Wilson, Prof. Babcock, architect, and President White. Since the opening of Sage College the number of young women who have availed themselves of the privileges of Cornell University has steadily increased...
...call attention to these facts not so much in defense of the present system as to induce a more careful discussion of the subject. The Tennis Association will, we believe, be willing to move if, after a more considerate discussion of the question through the college papers, it seems proper that any decisive steps should be taken...
...wish to call attention to the sale of tickets for the Hasty Pudding Club theatricals, which begins this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The performances are to be given in Horticultural Hall, and the seats in the back of the hall are to be elevated so that all the seats will be good. We hope to see both performances well attended and a large addition made to the funds of the boat club from the receipts...
...says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct reverse - a withdrawal from ordinary human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed a liberal education save a narrow selfishness and lack of patriotism, enthusiasm, individuality, and everything positive and definite, we had better shut up our colleges." This...