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...recent German in Hartford, given by Trinity students, a number of the gentlemen appeared in knee breeches...
...regret that the Yale News is not satisfied with the result of the recent conference on athletics at Harvard.-"Despite this conference," it says, "which was to bring about a better common understanding between the Harvard faculty and the students, we are of the opinion that the future action of the faculty is still 'one of those things no fellow can find out,' and we should not be surprised to find them issuing some such well-considered manifesto as that which they directed against foot-ball last fall. We most heartily congratulate ourselves that no meeting of representatives...
...truly a matter of congratulation that Yale has such a height of self-satisfaction. Nevertheless it is true that every Harvard man who reads the above quotation must feel in some slight measure the force of the criticism implied therein. We do not mean to disparage the recent conference. We hope it is only the first of many more such meetings, called to discuss both other as well as similar subjects. It is evident that there is at present little to be done by the students in the matter. We can only await the outcome of the negotiations...
...strange that the recent visit of the apostle of "sweetness and light" should not have brought home to us to a greater degree the need, the crying need of our time and our country,-culture. The influence of Mr. Arnold's writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present...
...Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, in a recent letter speaks as follows: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country_that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that should have the means of doing and should do for young men in the forming period of their lives the best that can be done for them in four...