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...people, or perhaps we should rather say the farmers of the United States, who are not used to handling or spending large sums of money, have been making a gallant effort daring the last three-quarters of a century in fixing the salaries of public offices, to rebuke the notion that money ought to be the main consideration of an American officeholder. Accordingly, in nearly all the States the salaries of judges and other functionaries have been fixed with reference to the wants of an ideal man of really lofty soul, utterly absorbed in the pursuit of things not seen...
...that a college meeting like this is held primarily for the benefit of the collegians themselves rather than for the exclusive satisfaction of the patrons of the professional field, and that a college meeting is a peculiarly appropriate occasion for the display of college enthusiasm. How absurd such a notion is it is not necessary to explain...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...energy the fact that the richest Scotchman who ever lived began life in New York as a shop assistant, with a university degree. The most efficient of continental mankind, the Prussian, agrees with the Scotchman, and so in theory does the hardest of earthly workers, the Chinese, though his notion of what education is partly puts him out of court. So in our own day and country do all manner of governing men, who say deliberately, and greatly to their own disadvantage, that you get out of the thoroughly educated more efficient tools for all manner of work, including some...
...professional trainer among students in the one case, and of none in the other. This fact, doubtless, has had much to do with the decision of our faculty. It must not be looked upon as an act of discourtesy if Yale fails to fall in with the prevalent notion at Harvard. A remedy is needed only when we suffer. The only possible cause for suffering has been in our contact with professional nines. From the standpoint of the faculty this has seemed no cause of harm, and we generally approve their opinion. From the standpoint of our athletic interests, which...