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...thought that the Harvards showed rather less nerve and pluck in playing an up-hill game than we have been led to expect from them, and they were badly out-played in base-running. The collision between Tower and Hodges in the last innings showed the need of more system in taking flys. Tower was obliged to give up playing, but has entirely recovered from his accident. It should be a matter of pride that our Nine did so well in their striking as to atone for their numerous faults and mishaps in the field; a result due chiefly...
Some people wish to have Harvard changed into an institution to which men may come as for a matter of business, to obtain instruction on one subject or another, staying and going at their own sweet wills, and paying accordingly. If the Elective System or any other influence should ever bring it about that all which Harvard graduates have in common is a date of the reception of a degree, and perhaps not even that, then Class-Day must die as a matter of course; but until that unhappy day comes, let us do anything in our power to preserve...
...system of administration is essentially the same in the colleges and lyceums, hence, in treating of it. I shall confine myself to the lyceums. The highest officer in a lyceum is called a proviseur. It is upon him that all responsibility rests. Next in authority is the censeur, who has charge of the discipline, and enforces the rules. An aumonier looks after the religious teaching, and everything that has to do with religion. Finally an econome has special charge of everything that pertains to the material wants of the scholars. Then four functionaries generally live in the lyceum, to which...
...effects of this system of education are fatal in the extreme. Horrible stories are told of this life in colleges, which I should be very loath to trust to paper. Those who have passed through it know what impure and fetid atmosphere is there breathed. Innocence loses its freshness; it is the perdition of the soul, often the irreparable ruin of the body. The graces of youth rarely survive this atmosphere of death. The evil is great, so great that few dare to look it in the face; and yet how many fathers, in full knowledge of the cause, persist...
...would be a successful lawyer. The prevailing idea that success is measured by the amount of fame a lawyer obtains was by no means favored, and, continuing, the lecturer paid great tribute to those who with painful diligence and labor have built up and established our system of Jurisprudence, in all its parts and details, into harmony and consistency, and made these accessible to others...