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...inter-collegiate athletic contests the faculty wish to have them done "decently and in order;" to be managed in such manner as not to interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests...
...hindrance to whatever preparation they may be making for the examinations. Instructors ought to be very careful before they decide to do this. Extra work can but have a discouraging effect on the men who are hard pressed enough anyhow at this time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There is no justice in such a proceeding to commend it in the slightest; on the contrary it is rank injustice both to the men and their work...
...languages should have their fair share of time and attention, or, as has been well observed at their opening meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely made it a condition that the instruction which they gave should be literary as well...
...college senafe at Bowdoin has been considering its first serious case, that of a freshman who was hazed in his room last Saturday...
...Yale alumni in New York, Saturday, Pres. Porter assured his hearers that, in respect of the college's healthfulness, about which some alarm had been created recently, there was no occasion for apprehension. Not a single case of malaria had occurred on the college premises. Every one of the serious cases of illness could be traced to personal imprudence and exposure. As for New Haven itself, there was far less of malarial fever than there was ten years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college, drawing away energies...