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WHETHER or not the annual intercollegiate regatta, which is, as yet, nothing more than an experiment, deserves to be perpetuated as a custom, is a disputed question; but even if it should be answered unanimously in the affirmative, the advocates of the lately proposed system of literary contests still have their case to prove. The chief advantage of the regatta is said to be the increased disposition for physical work which it fosters in the minds of undergraduates generally, by bringing into popularity so healthy an exercise as boating. This it does in two ways, by encouraging rowing among those...
...becomes a difficult and momentous question, some weeks before the "Mid-year Examinations," which part of our back work in each study is the most important and useful, and what we had better "get up" for the examination. It seems as if our common sense should tell us, in answer to this question, that it is best to make a complete review of the subject, and to master thoroughly a digest of the most important parts, and of those to which the most attention has been directed, giving an undue prominence to no single feature of the course...
...question by which he was mightily tasked...
...influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would be pernicious as well. Indeed, it is an objection that holds as well against the discussion of the question as against the pledge, that some men in defiance, and to show their contempt, rush into excesses they otherwise had never approached. It is nice because it is naughty. But to overthrow this system of pledging, it is necessary to discuss the subject, and to advocate some other remedy for intemperance...
...trusted, those were days of hard drinking when among the Rules and Regulations there was one that forbade the use of all liquors at the table or in the room. And so, I imagine, it is likely to be at Amherst, if much stress is laid on this question of drinking. Stolen pleasures are the sweetest, nor are they the ones in which moderation prevails. Besides, there is sometimes a sort of pride men take in being different from their associates; they boast of their deeper draughts or their broader principles. At Harvard, I am glad to say, such affectation...