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...will give me great pleasure to accept the position of Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, from Sept. 1, 1894, if the Board of Overseers shall see fit to consent to the appointment...
...communicate this election to the Board of Overseers, that they may consent thereto if they see fit...
Such beliefs, it seems to us, promise much good. It is not the function of universities simply to give a few men knowledge, but rather to fit these few men to be the means of making knowledge possible for many people. The university is not to create an intellectual class, but is to intellectualize the whole country. The temptation is very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen...
...football, some evils of a serious nature have in recent years been developed. In the first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football there is the special objection that although its risks are inordinate and excessive, the recent development of the game has made it more and more dangerous, without making it more skiful or interesting...
Secondly, the union would agree on a set of questions to be discussed by all debating societies. One question would be discussed each month, the remaining meetings of the different societies being disposed of as they should severally see fit. By such a simultaneous discussion a great demand for information would be created, and, if the topics were of questions of the day, wide-spread public interest would be aroused. This fact, leading publications in the country fully realize. The North American Review stands ready to give space for an article on both sides of the questions each month...