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...illegal dress." In his sophomore year eighteen members of the class received detours, but Sumner's name is not among them. At the junior exhibition (April 28, 1829) Frost, Andrews, and Sumner were assigned parts in a Greek dialogue, respectively as mathematician, linguist, and orator. Sumner in maintaining the superior claims of the orator was unconsciously some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes and Pericles, examples of former days, will be like...
...enthusiasm in a crew is its desire and chance of winning. Likewise the cause of a lack of enthusiasm and a consequent indifference among the members of a crew in the conviction that there is no chance of winning. Now, when by the addition of a new and superior crew, the chances of the two best crews are materially lessened, what must be the effect on the other two crews? Further, enthusiasm among the members of a crew is what calls out new candidates; therefore this action of the Law School will lesson to a great degree the desire...
...medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical. The degree of magistri is very difficult to obtain, and is seldom gained before the candidate has reached thirty. Education is a means of liberation from military service and hence is eagerly sought. Although the gymnasia and universities are very superior schools the common school system of Russia is greatly neglected...
...step forward he drafts men for the duty, the secretaries of the opposing corps arrange the pairs for the mensur. The regulation requires that every duel shall continue fifteen minutes, unless terminated sooner by the exhaustion of one of the parties. However, if one of the combatants feels himself superior to the other, he is at liberty to say "I am tired," thereby ending the duel; and this is generally done, unless there was some personal reason for the duel. The nose is usually not protected, and is sometimes cut completely off. A good but rather exaggerated account of this...
...branches of athletics in the following manner: "As regards the team selections, the objection is against the system which has prevailed for years, and is not in any respect to be considered as a stricture upon any individual. Tersely stated, the proposition advanced is that the captain, or other superior officers, should not have the selection of the men, but that unbiased outsiders should designate the men, and the captain should simply train and manage the material selected under suitable advisors. The arguments advanced by the supporters of this scheme are, of course, numerous, and include among others the abolition...