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...ample number of contestants at the two succeeding ones. The failure of more than one to enter for a general excellence prize was a pity, as in former years the interest taken in this prolonged contest has helped to enliven some of the events which have a tendency to drag. Another year we shall hope to see the general excellence men appear in greater numbers. The absence of any tumbling was also noticeable at the third meeting. But to offset any defects, there has been a greater excellence in many of the old performances. Three Harvard and one amateur record...
...believe that promotion should be not the reward of industry merely but of capacity. For entrance to the colleges there should be evidence of natural competence and aptitude for study, which should insure the true welfare of the scholar and not overload the colleges with those who are a drag-weight upon the class-room work...
...will give themselves thoroughly to them, is in every way successful. The day when one man who really loved Greek was held back by five who hated it, when the ten really earnest Greek scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With...
...sense of the greatness and dignity of this university, it would be the extraordinary quality of the horses and vehicles in the possession of the college and employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges...
...some day he will vanish from our midst and we shall see him no more. The old fable will be realized and the remorseless influence will drag him away. Another will take his place, but all that is picturesque and all that is mysterious will have vanished from our life...