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...large classes, now the rule and not the exception in our larger and older Colleges. The disparity comes from the different grades of the schools in which men are fitted; if the aim of the school be to send the largest number of men in "clear," a general knowledge of the required subjects is drilled into them, and a variety of "tips" and "choice phrases" give a brilliant and naturally bright scholar sufficient veneering to pass with distinction...
...decade, to college, he almost invariably obtains and maintains a high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many men who enter with honor rely entirely on their fit, and, feeling for the first few months superior in knowledge to their "country cousins," as in the fable of the hare and tortoise, suddenly...
...gentlemen and ladies, he, with others of the Yale crew, used the same insulting language in regard to Captain Goodwin, and, appealing to the usual rowdy argument, wanted to fight him on the spot. The cool and gentlemanly behavior of our crew at this time alone prevented a general and disgraceful fight...
...blessed with a good biceps grasp the bat or the oar; let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve the prevailing dearth of contributions for the College papers, - nor does he do the least who leaves College with a general average of ninety-plus per cent, - but let us have no drones among...
...have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have his hand ever on the pulse of humanity, and whose...