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...professionals, and whose successes of last summer are largely due to this fact. The Boston grounds could occasionally be had, but this resort would be unreliable and inconvenient. The President is opposed to our playing professional games, on the ground that by so doing we put ourselves on a level with men with whom we would not care to associate. For a long time professional trainers were considered indispensable to the crew, but they have been superseded, and with good results. Why cannot the same thing be done in base-ball matters? It must be borne in mind that...
...become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still worse when athletic competition comes to stand upon the same level of popular applause...
...been hoped that Wagner's "Lohengrin" would be brought out, with Mine. Nilsson in the part of Elsa; but that is reserved for New York, and the only novelty of the season was the "Aida" of Verdi, a work which stands on a far higher level than any of his others, and which may be considered as the best new opera we have had since "L'Africaine," if not since "Faust." The principal characters - those of Aida, Amneris, and Radames - were sustained by Mile. Torriani, Miss Cary, and Sig. Campanini, before an audience that made up in enthusiasm what...
...wane, and much dissatisfaction was expressed about it. The established regulations, which were neither unnecessary nor onerous, were not conformed to; many valuable and popular periodicals which had been taken for months ceased to appear; and it really seemed as if the attempt to place Harvard on a level with other colleges in this respect was to become a failure...
...literary, and discover them, without the use of glasses, in our college halls. That which most astonishes us is the fact that those who thus court and attain popularity are not always the best or the most deserving of their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope to their defects, and lays bare the selfish motives and small machinery by which their policy has been made active and for a time, successful. Your politic man is a curiosity; it is as curious to watch his manoeuvres as it is to observe the ever...