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Finally, I think that when the Gymnasium must be closed in the evening at 6 o'clock a notice to that effect should be inserted in the CRIMSON of that morning. Yesterday afternoon I was deprived of my exercise and bath because no such notice was printed...
...writer of this article seems to think that there are no high honors in the University open to the rich student. He appears to think that no prize that does not actually bear the name of scholarship is worth the scholar's winning. This is a mere confusion of terms. There are high honors in every department of the University that the rich scholar may win, and every one understands that the prizes are the reward for excellent scholarship, call them by what names you will...
...President's message was bad in its general effects upon civilization.- (a) It tends to strengthen the war spirit.- (1) Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation...
...Harvard is to win this year the interest which has been so great in former years should not be allowed to flag, especially when the other universities are making unusual efforts to defeat her. Thus far the interest of the students, we think, has not been as great as it should have been. The reputation of Harvard in debate is a splendid one. She can show an absolutely unbroken record of victories, and every student in the University should feel a personal interest in keeping this record as clear...
...Colleges, he said, was instituted in the New England colleges over seventy years ago. Duty in regard to college work and religion was a very simple matter then compared to what it is now. In these days of complexity of life and numerous temptations to college students, many think that safety can only be had by acting on the defensive, as it were; and by keeping out of the active and heterogeneous existence about them. This is a mistaken conception of one's duty. A man should mingle with the crowd. In the busy university life of today there...