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...magnificent edifice believed to be unsurpassed for healthful and comfortable accommodation of pupils, as well as for their moral, intellectual and physical training, has just been completed at Garden City, N. J., for the Stewart Memorial School, founded by Mrs. A. T. Stewart...
...with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually rub off eccentricities of action and of character. They exercise great moral influence upon each other. If a high standard of morals exists on the part of leaders, great benefit results to all others. The four years spent at college are an important epoch in the life of a student. Impressions are made to which the memory looks back through the whole...
Senior recitation in Moral Philosophy. Professor: "What is an act of will called?" Senior: "A volition, from volo, I will." Professor: "Exactly. Cicero says: 'Voluntas est, quoe quid cum ratione desiderat.' What is that?" Senior (triumphantly): "That is Latin, sir." - [Cynic...
...does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice is the custom in vogue among the professors of Lehigh University, where the text books in use are immediately changed as soon as a "pony" is found. A standard which holds up the antique methods of classical training...
...needless for me to point the moral of this tale, but what (fresh) man hath done, that (fresh) man can do. Let me assure the freshman nine that the game will be an object of great interest to many others than the members of their own class, and that none will take more pleasure in seeing them win the game than those members of the class of '81 who may have the good fortune to be present...