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...arising we quite agree with our contemporary that it should be checked. But such considerations are beside the point at issue - as to the advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges...
...which Mr. Jones seeks to attain this is peculiar to himself, and is the result of a good deal of study on his part. It has so far the confidence of the corporation that, in the absence of any person fitted to supplement him, he has been made the sole instructor. The best part of his system is similar to principles of voice culture heretofore confined wholly to teachers of vocal music. He seeks by simple exercises to give a free movement to the diaphragm, and to insure that every word is supported from that depth; the chest...
...overseers was retained, embracing the governor, the deputy governor, and the leading clergymen and magistrates of the adjoining towns. This double organization was designed to perpetuate in the government of the college the close relation of church and State to all educational institutions. The overseers had been the sole governing board, but, as constituted, it was not found equal to the functions which devolved upon it. Many of the members resided at a distance, and few could have an immediate knowledge of the needs of the college and an insight into its workings. Differences in religious belief also divided...
...everybody. But that, at the same time, there has arisen a certain unconscious tendency towards an unwise exclusiveness in our sports, we think cannot be doubted. To produce a team that will play an almost faultless game, or athletes whose records excel the best, should not be the sole end and aim of all our college sports. It is true that by success in this way a general interest in all these things can best be fostered; but, when we sacrifice to this aim all the better uses of college sports and very nearly subvert the fundamental principle of amateur...
...rapid strides which have been taken at Harvard of late years towards the complete and perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or less eminent degree, we assume for Harvard the sole enjoyment in America of a chair for the study of classical philology in its strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped that it will in time replace the stay...