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...desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker" in the pursuit of the wayward tennis ball should have suffered so sudden a cooling, and his numbers so sadly diminished, is not easy to see. We are perhaps forced to the conclusion that a reckless extravagance had characterized the players of tennis previous to the new rule, and that prices paid to "shackers...
...Aspects of College Training." The founders of the early colleges believed strongly in the doctrine that intellectual power is worth more than intellectual acquisitions; that an education of all the mental faculties is better for the scholars themselves and for the community than a narrow training for a special pursuit. Acting on their idea the founders of our colleges began their educational system not with schools for special training but with schools of general culture, and the staff of instructors were not specialists but men fit to teach others the rudiments of higher learning in which they had themselves been...
...down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes and is placed alongside some roasted joints and college-baked bread, the onlooker can draw his conclusions, and even long - as we did that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers to survey the wondrous plan; but we got so hungry with watching these youngsters that...
...most necessary part of that life. That at some colleges it is apt to bring about such perfection in a few individual men to the discouragement of the many is unfortunate, but this is the same thing that happens in any course of study or other pursuit. No one claims that the study of oratory or mathematics does not accomplish an excellent purpose simply because some men have more talent for those pursuits than their comrades and so reach a greater state of perfection...
...possibly be understood by them. Let them try elevens for a season and they will quickly see that in order to play a sure game some method must be used in retaining the ball after a down and in giving opportunities for running by quick and accurate passing. In pursuit of this method they will soon discover the strength of the American team and the open formation game...