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...rule pursued in these meetings in regard to the question of sparring, is, I believe, to make the class known as the featherweight, include all men whose weight is, or under, 125 pounds. To a person unaccustomed to the ring a matter of four or five pounds in the difference in weight of the two contestants is of no moment. A difference of a few pounds in the weight of two heavyweights would not be considered of much importance; but this disparity in the case of featherweights is of the greatest moment. The difference in the comparative strength...
...theological faculties in American colleges are as a rule denominational. Harvard, however, although formerly not, has at present an unsectarian faculty, in which there are several divines of Trinitarian denominations...
...will inspire them with coolness, courage and ambition, besides teaching them how to play baseball and play it well. We never did believe in the danger of contamination which our worthy Board of Overseers so recently deplored. Personally the men who play upon these professional teams are, as a rule, respectable, honest men who simply take this means of earning their livelihood. They do not dare to play in an underhanded fashion even if they are inclined so to do, for fear of losing their positions. Our nine cannot suffer by contact with these men and there is no doubt...
...neglect such an opportunity. The pity is that such chances are so rare. The size and unwieldiness of this institution of learning is such as to prevent any but the slightest acquaintance from existing between student and instructor. The converse is the exception, not the rule. Therefore no persuasion of ours is necessary to prevail upon any one to seize this opportunity of coming in personal contact with one whom we so admire and esteem in the lecture room. The sole cause for regret is that the absence from Cambridge of so many of us prevents us from availing ourselves...
...Woman suffrage is inexpedient. (a) The great majority of women do not desire suffrage. (b) The class of women who would make use of it would, as a rule, belong to the ignorant and degraded classes in large cities.- New Englander, 1884, p. 206-7. (c) The influence of the Roman Catholic Church would be vastly increased.- Forum IV, 14-15. (d) It would add 2,300,000 illiterate and ill-qualified voters to the 1,900,000 already existing...