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...some very strong ones why it should not be done in public. When a fellow becomes bloody and weak and unable to return blows with any strength, if at all, it is neither an exhibition of pluck nor skill for the stronger to pound the one who cannot defend himself. Pluck and skill are what is sought after in these meetings, but not when they both degenerate into a brutal spectacle, there can be no pleasure in witnessing it. The only feeling in many are pity and disgust, instead of admiration for good athletics, and I think I voice...
...poor old Yale, she has lots of friends. They have called her 'Black Republican,' 'Beecherite' and all sorts of things besides. They all wag their heads at her and tell her what will happen to her if she does not take their advice, support their interests and defend their notions. She seems to stand it pretty well, so long as she pays no heed to any of them. There is only one thing which could do her any harm. That would be to get some professors who believed at the same time 'both sides' of a scientific question...
Hannibal Hamlin, minister to Spain, recently advised the students of Colby University to devote more time to the vigorous practice of extemporaneous speaking. Mr. Hamlin is right. The expense to college students of hiring lawyers to defend them in police courts in gate-stealing and sidewalk-destroying cases is no inconsiderable item...
...abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals gave an unfavorable impression of the state of civilization within our limits, and even today we have not freed ourselves from the reproach incurred by the recent exploits of our noted handits. Yet when we attempt to defend ourselves by pointing to the evidence of our higher civilization, we are confronted by the spectacle of our chief temple of learning housed in ancient barns and cramped and obstructed by the scantiness of resources which hardly permit it to assume the dignity of a common school...
...Carpenter, in the negative, thought that the old system had done its work and condemned it as tending to make sports exclusive, specialized, scientific and to highly developed in certain directions. If the affirmative wish to defend the old system they must in the end defend "Yale method...