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...college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused to mount his table and entertain...
Having published an article upon our own university crew, we now supplement it by a description of the crew which our rivals will put upon the water this season. We are indebted to an article which recently appeared to an article which recently appeared in the News for the following account of the men who will probably obtain seats in the Yale boat. Thirteen men are now in training for the crew, including all but the of three men who rowed in last year's race. The three vacant slides are those of Scott, No. 7; parrott...
...speak, but few years since the undergraduates at most of our colleges were left to shift for themselves. Now every facility is offered them for exercise of the body, as well as of the mind * * * * from Harvard, with its magnificent Hemenway Gymnasium, down to the smallest "fresh water" college, we note a steady improvement in this all-important branch of culture. Evidently we are soon to realize the time-worn maxim, mens sana in corpore sano...
...parallel bars, and a horizontal bar: now, upon entering a gymnasium fitted up according to modern ideas, one is fairly bewildered at the maze of complicated apparatus which meets the eye. Bathing facilities were rare, in the old days: now no gymnasium is complete without its copious supply of water, hot and cold, fixed tubs, and shower baths...
...with circumstances and gain strength at the same time, but a little genius is quickly and not uneasily destroyed. But great genius is rare among men in comparison with the small genius, which is possessed in a greater or less degree by everybody. It is the little drops of water, the single flakes of snow, and so on. So then it is also the little bits of genius that make the mighty college, university, world of intellect. This leads us to the conclusion that the interests of those of small genius should be considered before the interests of those...