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...following men are training for the Princeton nine: '82-Winton, Harris, Ernst, Larkin, Schenck; '83-Harlan, Wadleigh, Antrim, A. Wilson, Trainer, Morgan; '84-A. Moffat, Burroughs, Winton; '85-Clark, Potter, Van-Etten, Schenck...
...Clarkson N. Potter is seriously ill, and his death is expected at any moment...
...Saturday, but all them other things you said hain't no more sense to 'em than apple-parings. Think I'd have you carrying my water-pail round and pestering me all day 'pouring sweet poetry in my eye'? I think I see myself! As for your reciting the 'Potter's Saturday Night' while I milk, I guess them clothes of yours ain't meant to travel round our barn-yard much, 'sides, the smell of the yard ain't always agreeable to city folks. And I wasn't sighing about you, but because ma didn't put any doughnuts...
...Bush, '80 G. E. Potter...
Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...