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...Yale. This supposition has given us both joy and sorrow. The latter feeling has been especially prominent in athletics, and the way in which athletics should be supported. Yale enthusiasm, and Harvard indifference have formed the two pictures which have been so often placed side by side, that the comparison might be the more marked by the just opposition. A mingled feeling of joy and sadness, joy because "misery loves company," and sadness because we pity anyone as badly off as we are,- now comes upon us as we learn the distance which separates Cambridge from New Haven, has done...
...From comparison of these reports, it will be seen that the total amounts of receipts and expenditures of both crews are almost identical, in spite of the fact that our expenses at New London were increased some $200 over '86, owing to the postponement of the race. Again, acting under the advice of the captain of the University crew, we employed the services of Col. Bancroft through the fall. This was at an additional expense of $175. In order to meet this increased expenditure, we economised by buying a second-hand shell of the class of '84, and used every...
...attained by the body of instructors. Fifty per cent. with Prof. A may often be set against seventy or seventy-five per cent. with Prof. B; in courses which require very nearly the same amount of work and brains, the marks often show an appalling difference. An interesting comparison has been made between the marks of two courses, which had been elected almost without exceptions by the same men. The courses were reputed to be of very nearly equal difficulty; but the disparity in the marks was very great. There was to be found not even a tendency toward equality...
Again the colleges (?) of Ohio come up for comparison with the collegiate institutions in other parts of the country, and, as usual, to their discomfiture. This time it is at the hands of a leading newspaper of Cincinnati, which makes these statements...
...best development of genius under uncomfortable circumstances, but then not many of us have genius. Great genius may survive conflicts with circumstances and gain strength at the same time, but a little genius is quickly and not uneasily destroyed. But great genius is rare among men in comparison with the small genius, which is possessed in a greater or less degree by everybody. It is the little drops of water, the single flakes of snow, and so on. So then it is also the little bits of genius that make the mighty college, university, world of intellect. This leads...