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...changed by the cumulative energy of individuals working in the same direction for a series of years; and if, every year, twenty men with position, resolution and tact, would make it their business to resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason...
...varsity crew pulled a trial race with the freshman crew on Wednesday last, and beat them easily by three lengths at the end of a half mile...
There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It is simyly an attempt to carry into examination material with which the questions of the examiners may be answered without any regard to the student's knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing...
...speed and endurance. The Druids won by a score of three to one. In the final and deciding game between the Druids and Harvard, the Druids were tired from their exertions of the previous hour, but still played with pluck and vigor. The ball was constantly thrown from one end of the field to the other, and showed no inclination to linger at either goal; but on five different occasions when it was near the Druids' goal, the fine playing of the Harvard attack forced it through the flags, while the Druid attack was unable to score at all. Harvard...
...handed in a report quite as striking as the other. The overseers voted, from this report, that "this board, with no intention of criticising the gentlemen in charge of the English department, hereby expresses its opinion that more extended instruction should be given in written English; that to this end they recommend that the number of exercises in written English be increased, and that every effort be made to render the course of instruction in written English more systematic and progressive." It is difficult to see how with "no in tention of criticising" the English department, the committee could recommend...