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...remarks in the above are exceedingly suggestive. There are at least two elements in Harvard life, one corresponding to the mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments...
...immemorial, the faculty has decidedly quenched all signs of such a thing as playing in the yard. We have even seen a foot-ball man prevented by a member of the faculty from tossing a foot-ball in the air while crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last...
...titles themselves almost frighten us. "Friendship," "Purpose," "Ruhmes Halle," - these have an unpleasant abstractness about them and hardly seem to belong to college journalism. Still, it must be confessed, some of these attempts at philosophy, at the ethical and the didactic, are exceedingly well made, and would reflect credit on papers of a higher order...
...unfortunate that so many seem unable to discuss Yale affairs without indulging in ungenerous allusions to Harvard. Your correspondent 'Anti-Revolutionist' errs if he supposes that criticisms upon Yale can be answered successfully by slurs upon the university at Cambridge. This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they...
...that department, but of the university in all its departments. What is needed is organization. Chaos may be full of energies, but those energies are pretty sure to be ill-directed and ineffectual. That so great an institution should be ruled by an active energetic central board would seem to be a self-evident proposition. The point we would make against the corporation as now constituted is not that it contains too many ministers, or that not enough denominations are represented in it, but that it is inefficient; that it fails both to perform the duties developing upon...