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...seems to argue that the college only affords the one course, in each "branch," that is of any value, and that the seeker after a "broad education" is always fortunate enough to know how to select this course. It is surely encouraging to find that one can learn all that the college can teach, without studying the numerous courses that she offers...
...proposed. I cannot but believe that it will be an unfortunate blow for the physical and essentially manly development of our educated youth if these rules are generally adopted. The management of athletic sports might wisely be left to the students. They may make mistakes, but they also learn to remedy them, and thus learn wisdom at the same time. Better mistakes with wisdom learned than to remove the chances of mistake by that emasculation of student life which will surely come if college authorities attempt to manage all their affairs and keep them in leading strings in season...
...prettiest and most dashing "woman," we learn from an exchange, at the New York French ball was a young law student and Harvard graduate, whose mother, a well-known figure in society, helped to dress...
...great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would be interesting to learn the individual history of such an alumnus, but it might be the history would be one of a comparative triumph-the history of one who, at the age of eighteen knew almost nothing, but who had then toiled hard and had reached the substance of common knowledge and education...
...Wendell, the instructor in English, has been making a tour during the examination period through all the large colleges, to learn their various methods of teaching English literature...