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...Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from...
...Moral and intellectual philosophy...
...enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better than his own wretched one. And the boy is morally as badly equipped as pecuniarily. Long ago the uneducated and soft-hearted father lost his authority over his son, who, with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone...
...current Argonaut contains an engraved portrait of B. F. Cocker, late professor of mental and moral philosophy in University of Michigan...
...health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral discipline of no slight value. That a considerable portion of the leisure time of students is most profitably passed in athletic exercises, such as rowing, ball-playing and gymnastics, exercises which promote digestion and sound sleep, tend to dissipate distempered fancies and stimulate manly energy, may be safely admitted...