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...rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own. If the CRIMSON teaches - and it sometimes seems to teach - that we are to follow what is American because it is American, it certainly opposes the spirit of this most American University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANGLOMANIA. | 12/9/1885 | See Source »

...study of the minor living poets of England discourages the hope that any among them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little of the poet's inspiration though much of the poet's art; and we read them only to be gratified by a certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/9/1885 | See Source »

...Yale Courant has a characteristic editorial on the Princeton game; as the Yale papers seem to be quite frenzied over their late reverses, we may expect to see this recrimination, - childish and spiteful as it is, - continuing for weeks to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/8/1885 | See Source »

...powerful stereopticon. View after view is projected on the screen, and it is difficult not to feel that one is actually transported to the land of mountains and glaciers. We would remind the students that the lectures begin promptly at seven o'clock, not at half past, as some seem to have got the impression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/8/1885 | See Source »

...body, would be almost worse than a life in the back districts of ignorance. The young, developing mind needs diversion, and time had yet failed to produce a means of diversion superior to that afforded by athletic contests. Those who would have the student think of anything but athletics seem to care more for his harm than for his good. Many say that in themselves athletics are all very well, but why so much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention and the enthusiasm, there could hardly be any athletics. The student does right in giving some thought and interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study and Athletics. | 12/7/1885 | See Source »