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...that in college athletics as in graver matters in life, the degree of excellence attained and the resulting benefit to the participants both depend largely on the stimulus afforded by wide opportunity for competition. We think it very undesirable to limit in any way, not entirely necessary, the scope of inter-collegiate contests in athletics, and, while approving of proper restrictions, earnestly deprecate the narrowing of the field which would result from the adoption of such a resolution by a comparatively small number of colleges. In consideration of the widely differing conditions of American colleges, absolute equality in the undergraduate...
...them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail until further information of their aim and scope shall be made public...
Bloomington University has within the scope of the plans of her contemplated buildings, the following: one each for Chemistry and Physics, the Natural, Sciences, Language and Literature, fire-proof library, chaoel and observatory, Music and Fine Arts. The first two she will at once erect...
...objects must appeal to the sympathies of all friends of education. Its idea is certainly novel and suggestive,-suggestive perhaps of other functions of a similar nature which it does not yet undertake. There are many courses given each year in our best American colleges of nearly parallel scope, on subjects the same or closely connected. In many of these, especially in the higher courses, a certain amount of original work and of independent investigation is undertaken by professors and students in fields comparatively unexplored. As yet there is no established means of communication between our colleges by which speedy...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...