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...perhaps owe an apology to our readers for again trespassing upon the much-debated question of co-education. Direct testimony, however, from those who have had actual experience with it, such as was presented in the letter from Cornell, which we published a few days ago, and such as is given below by our Ann Arbor correspondent, cannot but be of some value. Besides this, we attempt to give below expressions of opinion from the several colleges where the advocates of co-education have been most actively pressing their claims of late - Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania - expressions...
Both the opponents and upholders of college sports, who have expressed their views in the public press, have often proved themselves quite ignorant of the inside workings, of the results, direct and indirect, of the tendencies and even the true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should...
...however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct from home and the common mother, Professors Palmer and McVane...
...until this result seems in some fair way of being attained should the agitation for this end cease. The same writer we have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct reverse - a withdrawal from ordinary human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed...
...Harvard Union meets tonight in Sever 11 at 7.30. The question for debate is: "Resolved, That monopolies in the United States should be checked by direct legislation." The principal disputants are Messrs. A. C. Lane, '83, and McArthur, '85, for the affirmative; and Messrs. Wilson, '84, and Winter, '85, for the negative...