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...whole it cannot be said, however, that the affair reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic of custom nearly extinct at all other colleges, the following account is of interest...
...shooting, formed the Harvard College Rifle Club, an organization which for a time contributed its full share to the recreation of the students; but with the graduation of its original members the club seemed to lose vitality, and in '82 it gave up all struggle for existence and became extinct...
...resolutions voiced the sentiment of the college in regarding the faculty's action as inconsistent with their own statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will...
...rise in the days of arbitrary college government; they were revolts against over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell...
...great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your own. In a word, in whatever phase this specimen may appear, he is riding a hobby-horse. The disagreeable part of it is, that...