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...that one must hesitate to form decided opinions upon it until it has met with a more thorough discussion. We cannot, however, forbear inclining to adopt the opinion in regard to it expressed by the New York Times. It is easy to brand opposition to so radical a reform as the extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit...
...shell striking a post on which he was leaning. This accounts largely for his slow and comatose action during the rest of the battle. with very little to check him, Jackson was pressing forward and had almost pierced the centre of the Union position when he was compelled to reform his men for a second attack. While reconnoitering in the dusk he was mortally wounded by a mistake...
...Camp of Yale writes a long letter to the New York Times in defence of the present system of college athletics and criticising the new attempt at "reform." Mr. Camp well expresses the feeling of reaction against the extreme measures of the reformers and their more extreme views which is rapidly spreading among the general and the college public. "College athletic organizations if left to themselves," says Mr. Camp, "would soon work out their own salvation in these matters by learning by experience that a college coach is preferable to a professional, and the knowledge thus acquired is far more...
...this age of reform...
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