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...Palfry there are three things which McClellan might have done which would have saved his campaign from failure. (1) By sending strong columns to his own right to check Lee's advance and expected at ack. (2) By a counter flank attack against Jackson. (3) By a direct attack on Richmond itself. McClellan, however, did none of these things, but instead changed his base and brought on the conflict of Gaines Mill. Porter is stationed at Gaines Mill with twenty thousand men, against him are hurled the overwhelming masses of A. P. Hill's. Jackson's and Longstreet's divisions...
...university wishes to play ball or row, the faculty have no right to say that he shall not. It is a matter for the students to decide whether there is any objection to a man's playing longer than four years. More, it seems to us to be a direct attack upon Harvard as a university. As such, it is right that all men connected with any department should have as much right to play on one of the teams as a man in the academical department...
...that its fame was world-wide. "Where is Dartmouth College?" While everybody knows the location of Harvard and Yale, few persons out of the State of New Hampshire can say where Dartmouth is. And even in New Hampshire itself, there are people who would be at a loss to direct the stranger how to reach it. In going from New York or Boston the passenger by the train alights at a shabby little station called Norwich. He is in the State of Vermont. There is, so far, nothing to indicate his proximity to an important seat of learning. The picturesque...
...recent meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni in New York it was voted that the sense of the meeting was in favor of a bill which is to be submitted to the Legislature of Maine providing that the board of overseers of Bowdoin College shall be elected by a direct vote of the Alumni, as is done at Harvard...
...realize the importance of this training, and compulsion is the only way to bring them to know its benefits. The system might be made pleasanter by having only a general superintendence exercised by Dr. Sargent or an assistant, the men of the different squads to be under the direct command of leaders or captains chosen from amongst themselves as the other athletic captains are. This would relieve them of the idea that they were going through a college exercise, while the general superintendence would keep them up to the mark and prevent shirking. This plan, with three hours of regular...