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That the effect upon the moral condition of the college has been to deepen and animate the religious element in student life, to raise the standard of good couduct, to increase the power to resist temptations usually incident to large assemblages of young men, and to secure the general quiet and good order of the institution...
...Fisher of Yale, who spoke of "College Education and the Opportunities and Obligations Resulting from it." President Gates of Amherst came next with "College Men as Leaders" for his theme. Then President Raymond of Wesleyan spoke of "The Philosophy of Method," and President Andrews of Brown University on "The Moral and Religious Value of Higher Education." President Eliot, as has been stated before, was unable to be present. A letter was read from the Rev. Frederick A. Farley, class of '18, (who, at the age of ninety-one years, is Harvard's senior alumnus,) in which the writer expressed...
...North American Review for December, Mr. Joseph Hamblen Sears '89, speaks under the above heading about the moral, mental and physical effects upon athletics of the game, as it is now played at Harvard. Mr. Sears was captain of the 'varsity eleven in the fall of '88, and hence his views on the subject are very far from being mere theories. A young "buck," he says, comes to college full of life, and of the sense of his new-found freedom; he soon falls in with a crowd of others just like himself, and this crowd casts about...
...Athletic Committee in 1888, shows this often-disregarded fact: that out of 365 students who played foot ball during the two months, (165 of whom practiced every day) only seven received at all serious injuries. "Nor are those, that do occur, more lasting than some of the moral and mental injuries that the game helps to prevent...
...necessary because we are not here long. Haste is necessary to prevent our getting out of touch with duty and God. Haste is necessary because reformation is hard, and becomes harder as time goes on. The helps that are available are Jesus Christ who has the power of moral induction, and the touch of the Divine power, of God himself...