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...that large class of men which goes to college with other considerations equal to that of acquiring knowledge and culture, also bears in mind what kind of men it will be thrown in with in one college rather than another and decides accordingly. This is no small attraction of English university life; that is to say the intimacy which one enjoys with men of the same general turn of mind, and the possible benefits derived from such intercourse. It gives a certain social and intellectual tone to men, more or less appreciable according to their resistance or pliancy of character...
...close, and foot-ball came very near losing its prestige when the "block" game was developed. In fact, a high degree of excitement seems to be necessary to secure the lasting success of any outdoor game in this country. To be sure, the excitement over cricket in the English universities is intense, and in one city at least in this country a very general interest is shown in the game. But to one who has seen little of the game the idea of becoming greatly excited over a cricket match seems almost an absurdity. In base-ball one acquainted with...
...studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear, James promised me that he would give up writing poetry and go to work." What would our professor in English say to the suggestive simile made by one speaker on the same occasion, when the latter expressed the hope that in the future millennium the Greek letter societies would all lie down together, and Alpha Delta Phi should lead them...
Yale, it is said, harbors the idea that, if she bears off the victory at New London next year, she will send the victorious crew across the water, there to compete with he English university crew...
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