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...kindly agreed to assist them in their labor, have undertaken to make a canvass of the college to secure adequate support for the rooms. If a sufficient number be secured, as is hoped, it will be possible to have the room open evenings, a measure which we cannot but think will add considerably to its convenience and popularity...
benches? I think even St Paul himself would be discouraged under such circumstances. Let the officers and members of this society be loyal to their church and earnest in their endeavor to make the society a power in the university, and not a low another preacher to be disheartened by coming here to find a mere handful of men to meet...
...education. Such views seem to us to be radically and foolishly wrong. Now and then a collegian may make himself ridiculous by aspiring to some high position for which he is quite unfitted, but such a case does not often occur, as the writer of the article seems to think. A college training essentially cultivates common sense. We venture to say that it is to the educated class of men, men who have had a college training that the country must look if she wishes a more intelligent and honest administration of affairs. Of course, men may become great without...
...from the college press as those tending to this effect. Our exchanges from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, so seldom agreeing, have all agreed in this matter. Few facts could be more significant of the intellectual tendency of the coming generation today than this; for it will not be denied we think that the undergraduate sentiment of our college is a fair representative of the sentiment of the best minds among the younger part of the community. Few men with minds open to ideas have escaped the influence of Matthew Arnold's thought ; thought so purely typical of the characteristic aspirations, beliefs...
...exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon...