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...Certain Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Special subject : R. W. Emerson. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...
...report of the committee of arrangements was accepted, with the exception of the rule relating to the dropping of candidates after a certain number of ballots, which was expunged...
...spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with that appreciation which is encouraging...
...consideration of these facts affords some interesting reflections upon the subject of the development of athletic sports in America. The question of whether our colleges are really going too far in their encouragement of athletics immediately comes up. Few will doubt, we think, that of late there have appeared certain tendencies in our athletics which, unless checked, might have produced evil results. But that in fostering and maintaining athletic sports generally as far as possible within our colleges, an unwise thing is being done, cannot, we think, be admitted. Whatever of bad example may have been imported into our American...
...muscles of the thighs to the best advantage. Those who have become famous on the cinder path, or those who resort to running for exercise, are much more evenly and gracefully developed than those who practice gymnastics, rowing or walking event, for these act only on certain portions of the body, whereas the former calls on all parts alike. Runners are also much more elastic in movement, and their muscles respond with a readiness that is entirely unknown among those who aim at mere strength or the development of a certain part; hence it follows that persons who desire...