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...intellectual force. The mind gathers impulse and force from the body whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit...
...freshest foliage. The ivy and the roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations are all over, and the festivities of commemoration have begun. The men have for the most part doffed "the cap and gown," and are abroad in the streets and grounds of the colleges in the usually well-fitting garments...
...wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton, Professor Child, and Professor White, besides many others have particularly expressed the most positive opinions on the subject. And as yet so far as we know no more has been done either towards reform or towards an abolition of the system...
...college steward was in the habit of dispensing food to poor wayfarers, as a matter of course, and in several instances the college is recorded as doing little acts of kindness toward people "now growne very poor by consent." Yet we can hardly accuse them of being too lavish in their expenditures in this line, for we also read that the munificent sum of two shillings was bestowed on "two poor women who weeded ye garden two days...
...nuisance, though unavailingly, and it is now of course too late to do anything to correct it this year. However, it is a most fitting time to suggest that some regulations against it ought to be made before the next season. It has become almost a regular habit at every game for a few thoughtless persons, towards the end, to leave their places and stand nearer the line without paying any attention to the fact that they were obstructing the view of those behind. This had the effect of bringing those who could not see as well into the line...