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...three goals at least to their opponents' none. They had now played fifty-five minutes, and unless a goal was made by New York before the hour the game was Harvard's. New York, however, did not improve this last chance, and the hour ended just in time to save her from losing another goal...
...human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed a liberal education save a narrow selfishness and lack of patriotism, enthusiasm, individuality, and everything positive and definite, we had better shut up our colleges." This is excellent doctrine and we hope to hear it preached more and more widely...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...conclusion, let me say, that if those who wish to subscribe would send the amount of their subscription to me by mail, without waiting for me to call upon them personally, they would save me much trouble. All money so received will be promptly acknowledged...
...probable that Harvard's policy is generally influenced very directly by that of neighboring colleges, save in cases where conformity to a common standard, as in the matter of entrance examinations, or where mutual co-operation, as in the matter of inter-collegiate athletics, seems desirable. Yet it is not possible that her course should not be influenced to some extent by the reforms and innovations introduced at other colleges. The progress of the movement towards co-education at Columbia, therefore, has been watched with interest by all Harvard men. How far the step Columbia has taken, slight...