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...understand that Corcoran and Derby have been corresponded with about training the men, but as yet no answer has been received from them. There is some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much as this has been spoken of about every year, we presume that the turf will still retain its place on the ball ground...
...Princeton Base-ball Club is in hard training under Capt. Rafferty, '82. Eighteen men are training, of whom four are from '85. Their grounds have been recently graded and a quarter-mile track added...
...majority of Americans feel the need and desire of education, and it is the need and desire of furnishing the poorer persons with this education, that caused the founding of the many colleges in the West. These colleges are mostly frequented by farmers' sons, or others, who must struggle hard for the coveted prize of learning. To suppose that these men could afford to leave their homes and come a thousand miles to attend such universities as Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when they have an income of perhaps one or two hundred...
...year. Busily as they toil, these people are never in a hurry, are never nervous, and are not given to worrying; but are steady, cheerful, and sober. They rarely quarrel, and even if they do, seldom come to blows. There will be a little queue pulling, some calling of hard names, and then the bystanders will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from engaging in brawls. That they are not cowards is well proven by the fact that they submit without flinching to the most...
...show that they are grounded in nature. But the secret is they had their rise in the days of arbitrary college government; they were revolts against over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society...