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...attend recitations and lectures, and partake of all else that co-education implies with men years younger than herself, but for inexperienced girls, with no knowledge of the world or its ways, it would be entirely different. Again, we say that people may express their pretty sentiments with the utmost eloquence, may utter their indignation for everything that savors of prejudice or injustice, but if they look the matter sternly in the face they will perceive that there are disfiguring wrinkles that all the cosmetics of art cannot drive away. Human nature is human nature, and no human power...
...breast bone, compression of the sides being prevalent. He explained the physiology of the respiratory organs and their action under exercise. The action of rowing was then explained in connection with the physiological structure of the lungs and heart. The exercise of filling and inflating the chest to the utmost, at the same time starting the cartilages by throwing back the arms shoulder high, was recommended. The lecture was illustrated by a living model and by colored drawings. After the close an opportunity was given for questions, of which a number of men availed themselves. The subject for the next...
...improved for boating. The grounds will have shaded walks and drives, making a veritable park out of it. These are the coming delights of our sister at New Haven. Meanwhile Harvard is cramped for room in athletics in almost all respects. Her gymnasium already is too small, and the utmost economy of room and time has to be exercised by all in using Holmes and Jarvis. Moreover, as grounds they are far from beautiful and park-like. Will not some friend help put us on a level with Yale in this respect...
...absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...