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...Advocate, it seems has been taking an unfair advantage of us. A Freshman has refused to subscribe for the Crimson because he prefers to take a weekly paper...
...Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators...
...Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand...
...English universities is made a reward for special distinction. It is a goal which can be reached only by men of brains, but which lies in the reach of all men of brains, no matter what their circumstances may be. What is done for a man here? He may take even a summa cum laude, and receive no more reward from the University than the little distinction conferred by those three words. There is no fault to be found that this is so, but the cause of failure must be understood before the remedy for it can be applied...
...them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take a First Class in classics, and he will be known and respected. He may take a Fellowship, and have for a few years an independent income, unshackled by obligations and conditions...