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...duties of active life. We welcome cordially the body of young men who this day have been added to our numbers, in the hopes that they, in their turn, will uphold the ancient name and fame of the University, will show that it has a right to exist in the men whom it produces from year to year. As arms are for those who can use them, so education is for those who can make it valuable; and we trust that it will prove that the influences here have developed high culture, have inspired manly thought, have incited to pure...
...class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably be lost. The plan suggested by our correspondent of having a class-book edited by the Secretary and not by the class at large would have worked much more...
...travel. Any one who seriously considers the question will readily see that, combined with few advantages, there are countless objections to a system which shall place the examinations of all our colleges in the hands of a single board. But if the intercollegiate contests as they now exist are in themselves a good, the mode of government which has been settled upon seems to be an eminently fair...
...founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting and the seats in a club six eagerly sought for. Had the same energetic management been kept up, the same interest would now be felt; and the decrease of this interest is directly chargeable to the captains of the several clubs, though an honorable exception...
...forms. And when we find ourselves interested in any subject, instead of investigating it by ourselves, we look about for some kindred spirits, to gather together and vote that the subject is worth investigation. This is particularly noticeable in college. Independent action is altogether out of fashion, while organizations exist for the furtherance of almost every-object that the mind of man can devise. And of these organizations I mean to speak...