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...ordinary sporting papers to accommodate the professional and so-called 'sporting' element, to whom they look for support. We not only feel, but know, that there is a field for a fair and impartial exponent of amateur athletic sports of every description. We propose to supply this want." Its scope includes all branches of amateur athletics, while college athletics are fully represented by special correspondence...
...college were not the docile. pride-of-the-Sunday-school boys, but those who had some "get-up" about them. The irresponsible rich boy was not a desirable adjunct to the college-roll. Harvard was the one college in America which aimed at improving and allowing the most scope to the character of the student. The aim was to foster the desire for learning. In the old country a man might almost be said to know before he was born what profession he was to follow. In this country a man on his death-bed could hardly tell what profession...
...reasonable to expect that the membership will then be somewhat larger than it is at present, owing to the increasing scope of the society and the wider recognition of its services, together with the decrease in the pressure required to make men join, which will inevitably take place, as the familiarity with the society and its workings becomes more general...
Such a statement would hardly be within the scope of this report. It will be sufficient to state that the society buys as a rule at wholesale prices and in no case are the prices of the society higher than the retail market price, and in many instances they are lower in a surprising degree, as in certain cases the society has been able to make arrangements which enable it to sell at prices with which the ordinary retail dealer cannot hope to compete...
...Finance Club and the Historical Society have one work to do; and the Philosophical, the Natural History, and the Philological societies have another work; but the responsibility of the former is greater, and the scope of their work is larger...