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...course of study and thus be led to give little or no attention to the studies of others. One evening or two a week could not be better spent than in listening to these various readings and lectures offered us. We would thus come to feel a need of education in a direction before unattempted...
...matter what his means are, can afford to give some thing. No one can say in this case that he cannot afford to put his hand in his pocket to pay for the support of a team on which he can never hope to play. The money is needed for no such purpose. But is to provide accommodations where all men so inclined can take an afternoon's exercise at small expense. It will need but little from each man, if all will only give their share and that promptly...
...view of the quarter whence they come, considerable importance should be attached to them. Hitherto one great difficulty in the way of reform in our college sports has been that at Yale, where the athletic championship has lain, public sentiment has been unwilling to admit that the need of reform existed. Thus it was the position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports...
...visit on that occasion was, I believe, to procure my subscription to the boat club; and I need not say that had Blake asked it of me, I would gladly have subscribed half my allowance. That boat club was the more or less direct occasion of our association together during our college residence; and though, perhaps, it helped to cost me my sheepskin, I am not yet regenerated from my impression that I made, upon the whole, the wiser choice. I speak, of course, for myself alone; and as Blake got his degree, the boat club had probably less...
...remove this protection to our industries, we make America the dumping ground for Europe's surplus manufactures. Protection is antagonistic to commerce, we are told. Yet, our imports have increased five fold under the present tariff, and we are sending cotton goods to the English, who are really in need of an honest article. The reason that we do not increase our exports even faster, is because we do not protect our shipping. Every exporting nation should have its own carrying trade. We have no merchant marine, because we have afforded it no protection...