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Fellow students: I think you will remember this coming to the University as one of the most cheerful memories of your whole lives and it will remain to you even when you are old. The admission to Harvard University is an achievement which comes to most of you after many years of toil. This is an influential and powerful society which you have joined, and in this society you share in the hopes and in the honor of the other members. We welcome you to this body of studious and devoted men, and also to something more, to a place...
...will be seen that students who prefer a course like that usually prescribed by American colleges may secure it by a corresponding choice of studies; while others, who have decided tastes, or think it wiser to concentrate their study on a few subjects, obtain every facility for doing...
This the teachers think unjust, for they believe in the boys of today and believe Exeter's students are just as loyal and interested in the school as Phillips Exeter students ever have been...
...could hardly accept your invitation without assuming, in appearance at least, that Harvard and Yale occupy the preeminent position among American universities which is held among English universities by Oxford and Cambridge. As there is no foundation in fact for such a pretension, we think it better for university athletics in this country, as well as for university interests in general, that we should not lend any countenance to it, and that we should, furthermore, avoid all semblance of a spirit of exclusiveness towards our sister universities. Nor, considering the narrower ground of athletic skill, can we forget that...
...Wade, president of the athletic association this year ,would say nothing as he did not recognize the letter published in the papers as official. When asked about the three mile run he said: "I don't know anything about it but I hardly think Yale and Harvard will want it. The old managers and captains will have full charge of the challenge...