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...library, but that if it were he would not get it, as he, Harvey, regarded it as not being a fit book for him to read. Of course not. It is a text-book of patriotism, liberty, philanthrophy and correct politics. It teaches loyalty and calls treason by its proper name; therefore the young Virginians ought not to read...
...understand that the club has several old boats which it wishes to dispose of, and we can see no better way than to give them to us, who are certainly in great need of them. We have in the school several excellent oarsmen besides many who will, with proper training, develop into good men. Most of them intend to enter Harvard. It seems to be settled that unless we are successful in getting boats there will be no races this year. The boat club cannot expect Harvard to send boats until some formal statement of its circumstances and demand...
...last number of the Exonian tells us of the decline of Exeter boating interests for want of proper boats, and appeals to Harvard to supply the deficiency, saying that as a majority of Exeter men go to Harvard, we would eventually get most of the advantage derived from their having adequate boating facilities. With regard to boating, no other preparatory school, with the exception of St. Paul's, has such good natural opportunities as Exeter, and yet, as all graduates of Exeter know, these opportunities have been, and are now, greatly diminished through lack of boats. Exeter men have always...
...therefore seems very proper that Harvard should take some notice of Exeter's wants and respond promptly to her appeal for boats. We can do this all the more handily as we now have lying idle in the boat house several six-oars which can be of no earthly use to any one here. And even if a purchaser could be found, the boat club can expect to get no more than a nominal price for them. Thus, aside from the fact that we have an opportunity of showing our kindly feeling toward Exeter, it is more...
...development. Surely, then, the charge that too much time is given to muscular education in our literary institutions has the slenderest possible foundation in the facts of the case. And it must be evident, too, that the members of college crews and ball nines are not in any proper sense representatives of the physical condition of the average students in their respective institutions. The bane of American college life today is the spirit of prize-getting which underlies and inspires the entire system. It is equally powerful in every department of education. It utterly destroys harmony of development. It unduly...