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...pupil, which render a college course so burdensome to men of moderate means, the sons of such men will be enabled, either by their own exertions or the support of their parents, to obtain at a cost within their reach a good practical education, as good, in my judgment, as anywhere else, to fit them for the business of life...
...conceal the real weight of the duty from those who are unacquainted with the values of the dutiable articles. The ad valorem duties are theoretically more equal and just, but yet the tendency of all countries is to drop them. The faults found are: The difficulty of correct judgment by custom officers; the danger of fraud in concealing the true value; the competition of different ports in order to obtain more trade by appraising he goods lower. In this country, the lecturer explained, the ad valorem duties was the system sought by free traders in preference to specific duties...
...Springfield Republican passes bitter judgment upon Life, which it says was started by "graduates of the Harvard Lampoon." "The Lampoon was smart, for college boys, but Life is not smart at all, and has no good reason for being," is its stern decree...
These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...
...interesting, and he who can attend it for years without sometimes being touched by it and moved to better living, must be a very insensible and earth-bound person. Twice within a few years the college faculty has represented to the corporation that attendance at prayers ought, in their judgment, to be made voluntary, but the corporation has declined to take action upon the subject. In the autumn of 1881 a motion made in the board of overseers that the statutes ought to be altered so that attendance at prayers might be voluntary was rejected by a large majority...