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...card-playing is not prevalent at Bates. Such an operation may do for gamblers and black legs, but for honest, intelligent young men, it is not the thing. It may do for the starved in soul and intellect, but college students should find some amusement better fitted to their station than shuffling a pack of greasy cards. - Ex. And this too, from a Western college paper...
...club will be received by a committee, at 8 a.m., at the Boston & Lowell station, and be escorted to Harvard University, where the forenoon will be passed. After dinner at the Quincy House, the club will be escorted to the Boston Base-ball grounds, where an exhibition of snow-shoe racing will be given. In the evening a concert will be given in Music Hall, at 8 o'clock, consisting of tableaux representing Canadian winter sports, and songs by a chorus of 300 voices. Le Trappeur Club will be dressed in uniform and be accompanied by the Victoria Rifle Band...
...bring together more intimately, professor and student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally as big. Do the professors of Harvard wish to become intimate with its students, are they anxious to offer some more personal assistance than mere lecture room intercourse affords? Mr. Wendell says they are. And the student...
...large-minded and fair man in his search for truth in all his studies and investigations. The truth should be his light, and the end of his seeking should be the perfect light. He should judge all, both men and things, according to their true value, holding wealth and station in less esteem than character, the purpose of his education from its beginning...
...Institute of Technology in this city, that some of the instructors go out of their way to say things intended - and having the effect - to weaken the hold of Christianity upon their minds. What right have these teachers, if unbelievers themselves, to use the opportunity of their station and their influence over the young minds under their care to undermine Christian faith? It is the most objectionable form of sectarianism...