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Progress says of college journalism: "The college papers experience no little difficulty in obtaining sufficient matter for publication, and some of them even offer prizes for best contributions. It is hard to see why this should be so. There can be no practice of more after use to college men than exercise in composition in the English language, and it is extraordinary that the majority of them do not try their hands at it. One would suppose that the college papers would have vastly more communications sent to them than they could possibly find room for, but the case...
...Many such men, under the present system, find occupation for all this activity in regular training. A man who goes into training can not go on sprees, and must economize and systematize his time in order to both study and train. Having steadied their nerves by hard work of the muscles, many such men settle down to study and often make fair scholars. The system is conducive to the good order of the college, because it furnishes a healthy, interesting topic of conversation out of study hours. 5. The power of the athletic contests to awaken enthusiasm ought...
...Sallies of wit pass from one to another, and jokes are cracked at nay one's expense. All the men are on a level. Beck Hall and Holworthy sit at the table with College House, and pleasant remarks are exchanged by this representative of Boston elite, and that earnest, hard-working son of some country town...
...victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than a decade of training, or a hundred hard races...
...students have any worldly wisdom, they will take warning in time, and at once materially modify both the theory and practice of their conduct of athletic sports; for, if radical reforms are not speedily effected, there must ensue a conflict in which it is not hard to prophesy which side will be driven to the wall...