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...this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach...
...Boston ministers? How much would our own college history have lost had we been without Dunster and Chauncy, our earliest presidents? And what did the saintly grace of the great Apostle to the Indians, John Eliot, give to our Massachusetts history, for without him we should have lost that singular example of a man who may be said to have created a language, certainly in its literary form, of which the monument of his patience and erudition, and the proof of how a language may die, stands to-day in the score copies or more which have come down...
...athletic side. Bowdoin students will find in him, should he become their president, an enthusiastic sympathiser in their sports, for he is a good base ball player and an adept in the manly art of self defence. It may be remarked in passing that it is a little singular that Mr. Hyde should be the second man in his Andover class of '82 to be called to a college presidency...
...with addresses and eulogies is an excellent one and one that we might still have in conjunction with something else. But would not something of a jovial nature, in which the whole body of students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after...