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...exercise alone is very significant and very gratifying. There has been an undoubted tendency in the last few years to neglect gymnasium work for athletic games, and so far has that tendency gone that there is danger of entirely losing sight of the idea of exercise for the sake of sound bodies; the idea of athletics for the sake of beating Yale has become the all-important thing. The training for athletic teams is now carried to such a point that it becomes a long physical strain which is quite beyond the endurance of the average student, and the severity...
...Immoral," by Charles M. Flandrau. Of these, the latter is decidedly the best, perhaps gaining some-what by contrast with the only other piece of fiction, but at least showing clever character painting and a rather pleasing style. The hero of the story indulges in vices for the sake of the experience to be gained from them; and from fancying himself safe in his own virtue, finally yields utterly to his passion for gambling. His fall, and the weakness of character which led to it, are very well suggested in the story...
...reading aloud obsolescent, but the habit of reading even to onesself seems in danger of being left behind in the rush and complexity of our modern life. In college we have so many things to attend to that we cannot spare time to read for the sake of reading; when we leave college, we are more than likely to fall into the line of American gold-hunters, and in our search, to forget that the culture of which we have tasted will soon be blotted out unless we foster it. Yet we students are not half so busy...
THERE must be two Freshman elevens out at Norton's today, at 3 o'clock sharp. Come out for the sake of your class and give the team decent practise...
...interested in the Union who do not teach classes can do considerable good for it by going to these lectures and then after the meeting talking to the men and making friends of them. The lectures are invariably interesting and are well worth going to for their own sake. Professor Palmer will lecture next Wednesday and the week after, the editor of the Youth's Companion...