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...read and discussed, and in a great variety of ways could the time be profitably employed for those of us who in after life expect to war against the curse of strong drink. I am aware that a temperance organization in this university receives little enough encouragement from either the students as a whole or the authorities at the head of it. In this regard it certainly does not represent the best thought of the country. But this should not deter us who have convictions of the iniquity of the liquor business from putting forth our best efforts while here...
...Harvard faculty would still be in the leading-strings of "Finals" and "Semis;" but then the query arises, "Who would constitute the teaching body if all the professors became undergraduates? A social system which can support a learned class of such disinterested devotion to a life of study must either be exceedingly wealthy or exceedingly despotic. The import of the passage after all is only that the class of which college students in China are composed never contains any Philistines, while in America - in America it would be difficult to make such an assertion...
...therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system was not a correct index to either ability or industry; it led to superficial work, done mainly with a view to gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every public and private school...
...game Saturday was not particularly well played on either side and was won by the Newtons by bunching their hits in opportune places. The features of the game were the pitching of Fish, the right field play of Lovering and the beautiful stop of a hot ball off Hackett's bat in the seventh inning by Baker. Bowen, the catcher of the Newtons, split his hand in the sixth inning and his place was taken by Daniels, whose play was an improvement over that of his predecessor. In the second inning, while trying to steal second, Nichols turned his ankle...
...science and literature. All must take these. After that the principal subjects of the seven courses are: 1. Latin, Greek; 2. mathematics, physics; 3. chemistry. biology; 4. physics, chemistry; 5. Latin, mathematics; 6. history, political science; 7. English, French, German. Each of these courses is complete. He who follows either will fairly earn...