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Towards the end of the last college year the Harvard Total Abstinence League was organized and decided upon a plan of action. It is not until this evening, however, that any visible result of its existence can be seen. Whatever opinions one may hold as to the question of total...
The sparring in the last athletic meeting was open to no objection except from those who object to having any sparring whatever at the meetings. The contestants were cautioned not to indulge in much hard hitting, and the result showed that no one lost by this restraint. The hissing by...
Not only the facts, however, but also general considerations, make progress seem an insignificant thing. For, whatever we say, progress is either transient, or else being eternal, it has not as yet been able to remove evil from the world; and there is thus no evidence that an infinity of...
Yet this is closely allied to a conservative and, in many cases, an exclusive spirit. I believe that innovations are more easily brought about at Harvard than they are here. In no place is the system of severely exclusive fraternities more completely in vogue than at the University of Michigan...
I will pass over the HERALD'S mere general statements of what "past experience," etc., has shown, and consider its more positive statements. The HERALD says: "The system is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession." Now, the scholarships here in college are...