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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...games played on their own grounds, and so, of course, more interest is excited; besides, a more extended intercourse between the members of the two colleges is thereby promoted, and this surely ought to have a good effect in turning the spirit of bitter enmity, which too often exists, into a feeling of generous rivalry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...finest pieces of acting we have ever seen at this theatre, and forms a vivid but not unpleasing contrast to the ghastly and sanguinary drama which has so lately held the boards there. This week Miss Mitchell has appeared as Fanchon, a character in which she has often before won great reputation, and which is too well known to require comment. It is also needless to say that the principal characters have lost none of their former charm and attraction in the hands of Miss Mitchell and Mr. Shewell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...that the chance of selection would call out a general physical education, the whole aspect of the case would be very different." There is no doubt about the altered aspect. The opinion of Professor Hadley of Yale is quoted to the effect that the Yale oarsmen have been so often beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following extract from the Pall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION, AND INTERCOLLEGIATE SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...different institutions? In each a different method of instruction is pursued, and each completes the training of its scholars in a style which, in that locality, is considered pretty nearly perfect. These scholars graduate from their respective colleges and become teachers, perhaps professors, or professional men. They are successful, often famous, in their several departments; but it can never be said of any one of them whether, under a different kind of undergraduate discipline, his mental faculties might not have received a higher cultivation, thus rendering him capable of greater advancement in after life. The Intercollegiate Scholarship will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION, AND INTERCOLLEGIATE SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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