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...Already the thoughts of college men are directed earnestly toward the races which takes place next month between Harvard and Columbia, and Harvard and Yale. Good reports come from all the crews; but none seem to be in better condition than the 'Varsity Eight of Columbia. They are an especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will...
...thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour or two and yet always are on the rank...
...seems to be a duty to give from time to time as urgent an appeal as is possible, in behalf of the Annex. The writer has been called to this duty by a recent suggestion which has come to his notice, a suggestion which bears with it, however, more of fiction than of truth, more of air-castle building than of tangible reality. This suggestion is that the Annex buy the grounds and buildings of the Episcopal School on Brattle street. The suggestion is at least an ingenious one, and is important inasmuch as it emphasizes the great need...
...each of these questions it must be answered affirmatively. Indeed so clearly are the answers affirmative that it may almost seem absurd that the questions were asked at all. Every man who has had even a slight experience in college, provided, of course, he has not so closely locked the doors of his own being as to shut out all possible influence around him, must feel himself benefitted and elevated. Those benefits resulting directly from study or intellectual work of any sort are not here referred to. Their influences are more on the mind than on the self...
These benefits of a college course may to some seem rather theoretical and intangible; but surely they are quite real. They are influences acting silently and secretly but still forcibly. They are benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally...