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Matrimonial prospects - Two, decided; one, encouraged; one, indifferent; one, intent on single blessedness; one, "only waiting;" the rest are hopeful...
...even if the freshmen do not win the game they can rest assured that they are not placed in the unenviable position of the defeated Yale freshmen. What that position is, it is almost impossible for a Harvard man to understand. The Courant confesses that, in case of defeat, the existence of the freshmen throughout their college life would have been a miserable one. "As to the 'result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful...
...Boston Journal contains a letter on the scarcity of students' rooms at Harvard and the need of new dormitories. At present but 543 students out of the 928 in the college catalogue are accommodated in the college dormitories. As a result the lodging-house keepers who accommodate the rest of the students have been from time to time raising their rates until their demands have become so extortionate as to make the price of living at Harvard so high as to turn away men to other colleges. The writer in the Journal thinks some means should be devised by which...
...great influence upon the training pursued at American colleges. He thinks the most available and important studies in a liberal course of study to be "Mathematics, leading to physical and natural science, and language, leading to political and moral science." These four elements are the "food, air, exercise and rest of physical growth." Not many years ago sectarian influence was very strong among the colleges, invading the trustees and faculty. Hence we see all over the country feeble, ill-endowed institutions, caring little for sound learning but strong for the defence of denominational tenets...
...nine were near-sighted, the fielders used crutches, and the rest had never seen a first base, we should still say : "Our victorious athletes left last night to wipe up Harvard, on her own grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...