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...beginning of last year the Advocate published several articles arguing the question whether University men should or should not be allowed to row at the spring and fall races on their class crews. The articles on one side insisted that to permit them would give an unfair advantage to some of the crews; while the other side maintained that it would be gross unfairness to some classes not to permit their best men to row on the crew which represented them...
...what are such men worth? And yet these are the very men to whom is intrusted the charge of making our children good citizens and good men! They are not such themselves, nor can they be, either the one or the other. I cannot but be reminded of the ancient Romans who left the education of their children to their slaves...
...will pardon me for having lingered so long on primary instruction. Is it not by their primary instruction, which is that of the people, that one judges of the enlightenment of a nation? Is it not, secondly, the degree of education which exerts the most powerful influence in a republic, or state desirous of a republic, in a country in love with liberty, and whose government is founded on universal suffrage...
...This poem, from an old collection in the Library, supposed to be of the Augustan age, has been sent to the Magenta, as one more proof of our great resemblance to the ancients in our pleasures as well as in our severer traits...
...one young woman who took a degree at the last Commencement stood easily among the first fifteen in a class of a hundred...