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...will probably seem nonsensical to many to speak of any practical use to which boxing may be put as a means of self-defence in this law-abiding country, in this age of the "frequent peeler." It is likely that many of us will never fight a battle with our fists; yet there is a strong possibility that the time may come, once at least, in each of our lives, when the ability to knock a man down without fear of his "returning the compliment" will be well worth all the time and trouble spent in practice...
...FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it both the light and warmth of the soul," as Mr. Lowell defines it. But however this may be in regard to religion and such indifferent matters, one cannot be so sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which...
...question of adopting a system of late dinners seems destined to thorough discussion, and it certainly merits debate, for such a change would involve an alteration in the daily regime of every man in College. A rough sketch of the arguments thus far brought forward would give, for late dinners, the consideration of health; of convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour...
...physiology, geology, astronomy, etc. by our own professors would not be at all doubtful. This plan of instruction would supply a real want. All that is necessary for its introduction is the expression of the desire for such instruction from a number of students sufficient to make the plan seem feasible to instructors...
However true this may be of the more advanced attainments in the art, the reasoning does not seem to hold with regard to the fundamental instruction like that now given to one class, and which might well be extended to the others, - instruction, we mean, in ordinary reading, in which we are notably slack, and instruction in the cultivation of the voice. It is in these that we need not only what we have, but more. We should have not only a course for the last class, but for all, - a course, or a series of courses, which shall...