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...there are to be any races this fall or not. In consequence men hesitate to join the clubs, for fear that they will not be able to row on any crews. If this doubt were dispelled many would join the clubs, and they will not join until they are sure that the crews are to be made up. Now that we have undertaken the club system let us give it a fair trial before declaring it a failure...
...more people you please in the world the better off you will be; and although it is known that an attempt to serve God and Mammon at the same time is sure to end in failure, I have reason to believe that by careful management the same person may win the favor of college tutors on the one hand and of college students on the other. And your endeavors during the beginning of your course ought to be directed to that end. So I shall now try to tell you in this letter when you had better study, and when...
...years by the entrance examinations. When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...sure you are no coward, and I would not have you become one by putting in the plea of human frailty. What men are it is our duty to consider only as the starting-point to what men may be. To justify our acts by other men's is to set up an external standard which, in politics for instance, would induce corruption to grow stronger and in thirty years destroy this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion...
...year. Our Nine has already covered itself with glory, and has not yet been stopped in its victorious career. Success in the game with Yale on Monday will leave us, unquestionably, the winners of the base-ball championship. Of the success of our crew we can never be absolutely sure until the race is over. Diagonal lines will interfere with the best laid plans; but the work that the crew has done justifies us in feeling confident that if they are beaten, in a race rowed without accidents, their opponents will be a remarkable crew. We wish them, earnestly, every...