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...increased disposition for physical work which it fosters in the minds of undergraduates generally, by bringing into popularity so healthy an exercise as boating. This it does in two ways, by encouraging rowing among those who train for the race, and among others who row out of pure love for the exercise. But, among students of literary tastes, there will be none corresponding to those in the second class, for no one would be inspired with a deeper love of scholarship or oratory because other men were to compete for prizes in those arts. Boating, ball-playing, and other forms...
...times the best scholars and writers have striven to inculcate in men a love of learning for its own sake, or, rather, for the sake of its educational effect, and in our own time so strong has been the desire for a thorough cultivation and development of all the intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking...
...their primary instruction, which is that of the people, that one judges of the enlightenment of a nation? Is it not, secondly, the degree of education which exerts the most powerful influence in a republic, or state desirous of a republic, in a country in love with liberty, and whose government is founded on universal suffrage...
Reading in your number for January 16 a letter from Cornell University, which stated that "many" of the young women, students of that institution, failed to keep up with their classes, I addressed a note to President White, asking for more detailed information. I rely on your love of fair play for the publication of his answer...
This is the hour of day that I love best...