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...fact of common experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced to this small but important beginning of hers, and the supremacy that the college now holds in the matter of fashions is certainly due to it. If the revolutionary practice of wearing long hair had even once been admitted during its tender...
...must come, it shall not be due to any diminished exertion in the future on the part of the crew. We know how hard it is to resist the charms of the season, but the honor of victory will prove no small reward for such praiseworthy labor. With the success of their predecessors before them, we would urge the freshmen to strain every nerve to add one more triumph to the list of former classes...
...also furnished their own uniforms. These expenses, borne throughout by the individual players, have grown to be pretty heavy, and in spite of their constant victories, there is no promise of better times in the future. It is ungenerous, to say the least, in the college to applaud their success, and immediately flee from too great an exhibition of zeal, lest it should be drawn into subscription. However the case may be, the team must not feel discouraged; they have already shown so much pluck in the face of adverse circumstances, that we hope to applaud their future victories...
...constantly increasing necessity of a practical knowledge of modern languages is now fully appreciated by the authorities of Columbia College. Ability to deal in person with the people of foreign tongues has become even a requirement for success in a country so cosmopolitan as the United States, whose financial markets, whose learned professions, and whose general society is influenced and even controlled by an ever-enlarging element of foreigners. A recent writer in the New York Post says in regard to some salutary changes in the curriculum of modern languages at Columbia...
...advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic and utilitarian...