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...this inroad of radicalism is much longer permitted we may look next for the appearance of the epidemic even at Harvard. We do not know that ever, of late years at least, a Harvard professor has been guilty of the sin of light literature, or has ever manifested any desire to show a talent that should startle the world ; still it is the unexpected that always happens and we should be on our guard...
...secure a chapel seat as to pay for it, and from the affair of Monday night we have discovered that our freshmen, at least our present freshmen, have no difficulty in initiating themselves as well as their sophomore friends with the mysteries of the square. We do not know whether we ought to say that '87 has begun well, but we can surely say that she has begun early...
...know you're a fool in her eyes...
...them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions we are making, not to stop sports, but to keep them within due bounds. These colleges may gain the championship in games, but let the public know that it is not to their credit or for the good of the students committed to their care by fathers and mothers. It may come to this, that we have to refuse to allow our students to play with those colleges which lay no restraint on the time devoted to games...
...gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every public and private school in the country. There is hardly a thoughtful parent who does not know that the object set before his boy and girl at school is, not the gradual healthy development of their mental power and ability for usefulness, but a certain number of marks, a high place in their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly...