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Princeton is hopeful over her prospects in general athletics...
...Germany students are attracted by the peculiar brilliancy of some one instructor or department; men go to hear Helmholtz, or Virchow or some equally celebrated professor - not to attend the particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some one department may be of surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study...
There is a general revival in athletics this year in the Michigan University. The board of directors are preparing for the early organization of base-ball and foot-ball teams, and intend to have one of the old time field days in May. They will dispense with the subscription method so far as possible and raise money by lectures and concerts...
...will pass over the HERALD'S mere general statements of what "past experience," etc., has shown, and consider its more positive statements. The HERALD says: "The system is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession." Now, the scholarships here in college are not given to men studying a profession, neither are they supposed or intended to be so given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified...
...filled up with these inferior men. The moment you give these men a higher place in this profession, that moment you ennoble the profession itself. But we have seen that this is just what scholarships help to do. Scholarships are the incomes of funds devoted to the purpose of general education. Economically they can do no more injury to the professions than can any other funds devoted to the same purpose, - than funds, for instance, appropriated to college buildings, books for the library, or to any other educational purpose...