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...favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from the tone of her press, in the successive steps taken by Harvard towards a broader university system. Concerning the recent appointment of a faculty committee of conference at Harvard, the Record moralizes; "Harvard has made many and frequent changes in her educational policy during the past few years, and these seem to have led and to be leading to other and more decisive innovations. She has now arrived at a point where gradual changes must soon cease and the entire surrender of former...
...totally different person. He is mostly a modern American, fond of books and teaching, and study it may be, but also fond of such of the social and oesthetic pleasures of his time as he can afford. The proof is that there is, we believe, no case on record of a wealthy professor living with the Spartan simplicity which college trustees try to persuade themselves that all professors love...
...have been the case at Yale - but we do feel confident that there will be a large enough crowd to give the freshmen all the encouragement they need. We expect them to make a desperate effort to win, remembering that this is their last chance to break the record, so long unbroken, of Yale's freshman victories. Let each man imitate the Yale freshmen and "step to the bat with tightly drawn muscles and determined face," remembering that, although he has not the possession of a fence or his college future in his hands, as was the case with...
...recent defeat at New London and was obliged to give up his studies at that seat of learning "because they made it too hot for him." But, fortunately for Harvard, such sentiments do not prevail here. No man has ever been obliged to leave Cambridge because his athletic record was not so good as was expected of him. Our love of athletics has never carried us so far. We can assure the freshman nine that we feel convinced that they will do their best this afternoon and if they win or lose they will be supported by the confidence...
Simkins, to Miss Innocent, at the spring sports: "Look, they have put Smith's time down at 8.55; I guess they want to keep his record dark." Miss Innocent: "Why, how can they do that if they write it down in white? [The problem is still unsolved.] - [Chaff...