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...deprivation of such reading-room facilities as we have during the long evenings from October to March-being the larger part of the college year-is generally thought to occasion a great abridgement of opportunities for the students. The present building has no means of lighting it artificially. There seem to be good reasons to dread the introduction into it of gas, or of electrical currents from the public streets...
...will be kept in practice as long as the weather permits. The number of men who have presented themselves as candidates is small; owing to many being engaged in football and other sports; so that work will not begin in earnest until next spring. The men all seem to have some idea of the game but play carelessly. For catcher, Bell, '92, is the only candidate. For pitcher, there are Wiggin, '92, Young, '94, Williams, '94. and Howe, '93, who pitched successfully against the Yale freshmen last spring. The candidates for the infield are, first base, Nicola, '92, Coburn...
...guards and center, S. Berry, '92, Evins, '93, Vail, '93, Saltonstall, '94, Rantoul, '92, Hubbard, '92 and Fay will try. It is impossible to say much of the prospect for a strong rush line until the candidates have played together for some time. The men seem to have considerable weight and are an active lot, but very few of them have had much experience...
...This is our doctrine-that however the powers of man may seem to satisfy themselves in lower tasks, they can do their fullest work. and so can come to their best development only in the highest fields of life; that from those highest fields they are, in the lives of many men, excluded, and so are limited to lower operations, where they can not put forth their full strength; that in the lives of noblest men, and in the noblest moments of all lives, the human powers have been sent forth freely into the highest regions of their exercise...
...whole nature working at its best? I should like to know the thoughtful answer of a graduating class to that question. Plenty of reason there would be for hesitation. Plenty of slavery to circumstances, to the comfort of the moment, to the well-being of the body which seems to leave the soul no chance; plenty of blind loyalty to old tradition; plenty of conventional standards of honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted...