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...habitual train of thought of college youth. He should try, Mr. Cook insists, to keep alive the celestial fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character," he continues, "is formed largely by standing up manfully during his preparatory days. Ten years after leaving college it will...
...read Tennyson's poem in the 'Palace of Art' with becoming appreciation! College professors should be rivers and not glaciers, even if they be on the top of Harvard." He at least, however, admits some good in Harvard. "The man who goes through Harvard erect will be apt to stand erect elsewhere. Harvard is either the best or the worst for any young man." This last is doubtful praise. We take it he is referring to the influence of Harvard on a man's religious belief. For the man who can stand the liberalizing influence of Harvard and remain unshaken...
...clock car from Bowdoin square carries out two or three times the quantity of passengers that it can decently accommodate. When one does not wish to remain half an hour in the open air waiting for another car, it is unpleasant, to say the least, to be compelled to stand upon a small portion of a car-step (especially on a cold, windy night,) during nearly the entire trip. It is more than unpleasant; it is positively an injustice, if the company has at all in view the comfort of its passengers, - a matter which seems to admit of doubt...
...Yale ever put into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous 21-4 game, stand without a parallel in the history of college base-ball...
...faculty: "We the undersigned members of the senior class, while we feel that our request was a reasonable one, and while we deny the charge of willful combination, yet feeling a deep interest in the welfare of the college, and because on account of the very determined stand taken by the other college classes the affair has assumed such unexpected proportions as to seriously menace the welfare of the institution, since we recognize that obedience to constituted authority is essential to the existence of any institution, and since this affair can only be settled by some concession on our part...