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...very strange indeed if in so large a body of students affectations and eccentricities should not exist, but that Harvard men themselves should countenance and encourage the opinion that such characteristics prevail throughout the college, and thereby distinguish it from other colleges, is truly deplorable. Any expression of sentiment condemning such practices as prevail among certain classes of men, and which bring discredit upon the college, will certainly meet the approval of Harvard students, and any frank discussion of evils that exist will be welcomed, but the assumption that such qualities are characteristic of the entire body of Harvard undergraduates...
...great purpose is study. Now this is much more difficult, and requires much more moral exertion to devote one's self to, as an object, than the more active duties of after life." And, on the third heading, he says forcibly: "Indeed, although youth is called the age of sentiment and enthusiasm, I know no less enthusiastic or sentimental place than college; no place where there is more shyness in the expressing of lively sensibility. . .This trait of our character, I trace to our being undomesticated...
...colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without it college papers would lose their interest even in the colleges where they are published; their editorials would be insipid and without point, and many items of interest concerning, perhaps, some of the restricting powers, would be suppressed...
...following concerning Yale's sentiment about her freshman nine we clip from an editorial in the News: "It is high time that the freshmen awoke to a fuller realization of the need of their improvement in ball playing before they undertake to cope with the Harvard freshmen. Surely they cannot desire to break the long series of Yale's triumphs in these contests, nor yet can they afford to be still longer debarred from the fence. They must also know that the whole college watch the result of this game with interest. By it, we are able to judge...
...recent editorial on "hazing" in the Sunday Herald is in one sense encouraging. It shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular the effect of the expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs...