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...hand when a great many hundred young men and women will enter upon college life ; almost as many more will leave it, and a still greater number will advance a stage upon the real or apparent path of knowledge. A word of advice may not be out of place, at least to those who are yet this side, of their journey's end so far as a college diploma constitutes the goal. There is a too prevalent idea in the minds of young people that education is an affair of routine, that the sum of their duties lies...
...should not have professional trainers in base-ball playing. Playing with professionals is certainly not so injurious as playing with some of the teams we practiced with last year, although we confess that the general recruiting of the professional ranks from among college players that has taken place during the past few seasons is a severe blow to college athletics. The faculty committee of conference meets in a short time and we hope the subject of a professional trainer will be taken...
...transformed to the remarkable "Girl" through your near-sightedness or perhaps ignorance of orthography, or whether one of those proof-reading feinds who are so common in rural printing establishments, and who in 9 words out of ten substitute one of their own, occupies a prominent place on your board...
Moreover, if the college keeps on growing without getting more such buildings, it will make a sad change in the character of the college life. Harvard college is a place to which a great many boys are sent, not so much for the sake merely of the studies as for the influences and advantages of college life. They are sent here to get the advantage of the training and preparation that college, in its capacity of a world in miniature, affords, for the struggle in the larger world. But college life without dormitory life, with the students scattered around among...
...meeting of representatives of American colleges, to consider the subject of athletic sports, soon to take place, is very timely. It will be held on the heels of the disaster at Harvard, where unrestrained enthusiasm over a boat race caused a crowded platform to give way, probably with fatal results to some. The accident will serve to emphasize the importance of placing some regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair...