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...better breed of men." Under this head he speaks of the good influences produced upon the preparatory schools and he also quotes from President Eliot's remarks, which summarize the benefits of athletics at Harvard. "2. The system of college athletics gives opportunity for the development of certain qualities of mind and character not all provided for in the college curriculum. but qualities nevertheless quite as essential to true success in life as ripe scholarship or literary culture. Courage, resolution, and perseverance are required in all the men who excel in athletic sports. The faculty for organization, executive power...
Persons who use the reading-room of the library should remember that it was established for the use of all and not for the convenience of any one personally. This fact seems frequently to be forgotten. It is a habit of certain individuals to collect all the latest issues of the most popular magazines on entering the room, and then settle themselves down for a comfortable read, without a thought that they are leaving unused at the time three or four magazines which other men might like to see. It is nothing but an injustice for a man to keep...
...last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe that this...
Secondly, we formed our opinion of the course of this committee from the report current at the college that assurances had come from it that in case other colleges could not be got to agree to a prohibition of professional trainers, it would after a certain date permit the employment of a trainer for the Harvard nine on the like terms with other colleges...
...reported that a certain college has decided to make its students pay for any desks they may hereafter disfigure by cutting. This puts a summary end in one institution to what has been hitherto an almost universal custom. Somehow, these rude signs seem to be links between the students of different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point...