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...THAT target for the arrows of the aggrieved student, the marking system, (pardon me for mentioning it!) that contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People...
INSTRUCTOR IN LOGIC TO MR. H. By what method of reasoning do you infer that a bullet is hot after it strikes a target? - MR. H. By picking it up, sir. - Yale Record...
...made for the exchange of one hundred muzzle-loading Springfield rifles for Peabody breech-loaders and corresponding accoutrements. The amendment to the Constitution carried at the last meeting provides that attendance at half the number of regular company drills (one weekly) shall be necessary to entitle a member to target-shooting in the spring. A drum corps is in process of formation, and Freshmen or Sophomores, having instruments and being able to use them, are invited to join. Recruits will be received at any time, and the Constitution lies for signature at the Gymnasium...
...Rifle-Club has been reorganized and the target set up at Watertown ready for practice...
BEFORE, Harvard indifference was the target at which he shot his blunt arrows; now it is the non-attendance of students at the lectures of the Rev. Joseph Cook. If it were only Mr. Cook and his lectures to which he wished to call our attention, he might be excused; but our agitator cannot do this without impeaching Harvard College of snubbing a genius, Cambridge of "Miss Nancyism," the Nation of making mistakes (!), and himself of ignorance...