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...recent years the attempt has been made by all the better college dailies to alter the proportion of news matter in favor of the various forms of scholarly activity. The attempt has, we think, met with considerable success; but it is hopeless to expect that through the news columns of a daily can be made to appear the relative importance which intellectual work plays in the life of a college. The public, which draws inferences from the proportion of space devoted to different subjects, must come to false conclusions; and none will be more false than that which makes little...
...appreciating them, you can render them better than those who cannot appreciate them. If you were to begin to play say farce comedy for your own amusement and the amusement of the audience, that would not be study, it would be a case of claptrap. That I should think would be a very dangerous thing for students to begin on. They can indulge in that after a few years when they become old and respectable. In their studies they would better confine themselves to those plays that have good literary merit...
...objected that the benches would be monopolized by people for whom they are not intended, I think it can be answered that the students themselves can look out for that, or, if necessary, the same valiant and conscientious policeman who stopped the Glee Club from singing in front of Holworthy might be called upon for his services. At all events, I don't think this objection should be allowed to stand...
...field Princeton will be strong. Payne will give a good account of himself, and fill creditably the large hole left vacant by Mackenzie, captain of last year's nine. I think Payne's playing will be the best seen on any of the college teams this season. He is batting, fielding and running the bases in excellent shape. Easton will occupy centre-field when not in the box. His good batting has earned him this position. In right-field Altman and Bradley will alternate with Small as out-field substitute. Bradley is also putting up very speedy ball, and, like...
There would be no reason for the discussion of this question, said Professor James, if life were always enjoyable, and if the temperament of pessimism did not exist. When we think that there are annually about three thousand suicides in the United States, we may well ask ourselves, what can we do to make life worth living for those mortals who are brooding on their...