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...have shown marked talent and ability have been admitted. Everything is conducted in a most extravagant style. The cuisine and service can not be excelled. Of course so wealthy a school has had the very best of professors, of whom two of the most noted are Michael Neander, the famous scholar and hymn-writer, and F. A. Wolf, the greatest Homeric scholar of his time. The school owns many miles of mountain forests and to induce the students to exercise the authorities have laid out long walks through them. Regular instruction in riding, shooting, swimming, fencing, and dancing is compulsory...
...point out to his awe stricken son the letters of his name, and with pride narrate how he put them there when a schoolboy himself. Few relics in the old schools and colleges are more highly prized than the names thus inscribed of those who in after years became famous...
...college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that most men put their names into such publicity with any intention of some...
...Richards, '85. Yale's famous goal kicker, has been appointed captain of the football team for next year...
...journal in this city sagely says that probably no Harvard student ever thought seriously of becoming a professional baseball player or oarsmen. That may be true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft, the ex-captain of the Cambridge crew, a young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race with Yale...