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...teachers and students is much less close than in the West, and much less individual influence is exerted; but there are those who do exert a strong and thoroughly Christian influence. One of the best of these, it is rumored, Harvard is to lose next year; for her own sake I hope this will not prove true. The "Society of Christian Brethren," founded in 1802, meets weekly. The Harvard Total Abstinence Society has what ought to be considered a very small membership, but it is worth nothing that it exists, and recently had a public meeting at which ex-Governor...
...have already seen them, to be among the best produced by college men for several years. One of the gentlemen who take part is deemed by many to be one of the best amateur actors seen in college for a number of years. We hope then, for the sake of the Boat Club, for the sake of the society which has spent so much time and labor on them, and for the sake of those who enjoy a good play, that there will not be a single vacant seat at the performance next Thursday...
...wonderful fact was the establishment of Harvard when the wolf was still at its doors. The founders of those colonial colleges were animated with the desire to provide learned ministers, learned laymen and to educate the Indians, and with a love of higher education for its own sake. The methods attending their establishment were typified in the building of Harvard, the patrons of which were not the wealthy few, but the mass of the poor. Gifts of money and of utensils - even to a silver beer-bowl and a jug tipped with silver - were contributed; and to these were added...
...that college sports and the benefits arising therefrom are confined to a very few - that the "nine," the "eleven," and the "four" or the "eight" form a small proportion of the college; and that hence the manifest evils of inter-collegiate contests are not to be endured for the sake of the benefit done to a few athletes. They insist that the evils are many and positive. Large concourses of students gather in the cities subject to all the excitement of college rivalry, to all the temptations offered by college friends, and to all the opportunities of a holiday...
...very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game, the inter-collegiate boat race and the annual inter-collegiate athletic meeting, and most of the systematic and judicious work now done by the college student in the gymnasium will be left undone. To exercise for the sake of exercise is most laborious to the average college...