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...past fourteen years done much, under the able leadership of the devoted Dr. Hitchcock, to improve the physical (and with it the moral) well being of the college students; but a man single-handed, with no very good gymnasium or apparatus, and without the pecuniary resources Harvard can command, cannot do what might easily be done in the Hemenway Gymnasium, if only the authorities might be induced to take the wise course...
...idea of Handicaps were carried out and made a fact instead of an idea, it would serve as a great stimulant to athletics. Such races held, say biweekly on Friday afternoons, when there is nothing going on, and for cups of moderate value, would command a large entry, and men who contested each time would soon run themselves into first-class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed...
...push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented no such chance. They have taken already the electives in their special subject, and now there are no courses open to them in which they can work with profit. To be sure, they have command of the Library, an invaluable aid to any student, and they have the advice of the teachers; but they are not yet able to work profitably without guidance, and the time of the teachers is too fully taken up to allow them to give much of it to graduates...
...that Mr. Winsor has taken command at the Library, it is to be hoped that the change will not stop at the head, but will extend to the whole department...
...Pray don't," I laughed, "pray don't! I'll swear eternal fealty to the molecular theory if you command...