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...found to be successful, will be continued. The Board desire the co-operation of the members in giving it a fair trial, and request all umbrellas to be left, either in the stands outside, or checked in the auditor's room, after the announcement is made, that the checking system is ready...
...fiscal year begins in October, the membership will be not only more certain and calculable, but probably larger. The inducement to join the society is strongest at the beginning of the academic year, since a large number of purchases are made at that time. In February, under the existing system, men are apt not to join, because there is no immediate prospect of decided benefit from their membership. This probably accounts for the fact that between February and July of the present year only 390 members joined the society. In October of the present year, about two hundred persons paid...
...manual labor he says : "Not one in fifty of our schoolboys and girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics generally pursued makes those who practice it essentially prize-fighters, champion oarsmen, "wasting their time and devoting all their thoughts to some feat of athletic prowess." In rebuttal of this statement, Mr. Blaikie instances President Eliot and Professor Agassiz of Harvard and Dr. McCosh and Mr. Gladstone...
Continuing the argument, the writer says "The results of this utter neglect of any sound system of physical education stand out in almost every city home in America. Not one boy in five is well built, or, unless he is fat, measures within an inch, often three inches, as much about the chest or thigh or upper arm, or weighs within ten pounds as much, as a well-proportioned, vigorous, properly developed boy of his age should...
Whether with justice or not, "Yale enthusiasm" has been largely attributed to her society system. This fact will prove a serious stumbling-block in the part of the reformer. Of the merits of this particular case, however, we know nothing, although believing that, in general, college societies are productive of more good than evil. That they could be made productive of still more good in the case of every college, we do not doubt for an instant...