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...Eliot's remarks, which summarize the benefits of athletics at Harvard. "2. The system of college athletics gives opportunity for the development of certain qualities of mind and character not all provided for in the college curriculum. but qualities nevertheless quite as essential to true success in life as ripe scholarship or literary culture. Courage, resolution, and perseverance are required in all the men who excel in athletic sports. The faculty for organization, executive power, the qualities which enable men to control and lead other men, and again those other qualities by which men yield faithful obedience to recognized authority...
...Wesbter's dictionary, of which he has been for many years the principal editor. He has also been a not infrequent contributor to the reviews. President Porter stands, by general consent, in the front rank of American metaphysicians; and his sermons, like his other productions, are marked by ripe scholarship and profound thought...
...late Mr. W. A. Smith of the class of '80: "That of Mr. Walter Allen Smith, which took the first prize, is a paper which will intensify greatly the sorrow and regret at his early death; for a young man who could prepare so broad, so thoughtful and so ripe an essay, expressed in such an easy and happy style, was capable of great things, and his death is a loss to his State and his country...
...order and neatness of all the premises are quite perfect. The college was open for occupation in 1848. With the exception of one year, William H. Allen, LL. D., has been its president. His administration has been wonderfully successful. He still retains his place and influence at the ripe old age of seventy-four years. Mr. Girard defined an orphan as a white child whose father was dead. The mother who commits her fatherless boy to the care of this board may visit him or he may visit her once in six weeks; or she may never hear...
...carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees him as surely as President Barnard knows a hawk from a handsaw, and when he wants anything in the Greek line he orders it from Illinois...