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...cheer as if he meant it. Yale enthusiasm is proverbial; '87 must see to it that there be only the heartiest support from them. Do this, and come victory or defeat, the class can feel that at least they have done all they could to make a success. The whole college feels a deep interest in the game, and everyone, we are sure, wishes and hopes most earnestly for a grand triumph for Harvard and '87 this afternoon...
...library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction or biography, followed out during a whole lerm or year, will probably give the best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long at a time. Still whether one reads with some special end in view or does an indiscriminate skirmishing among...
...result of our game with Yale was not unexpected, and so we were not very much disappointed. On the whole, the season has closed, if not exactly satisfactorily, at least without any violently dashed hopes and expectations, and, except for the intervention of the athletic committee, in a very uneventful manner. Financially considered, also, the season has been successful, thanks to the large receipts at the polo grounds, so that we have not to bear debt as well as defeat. To be sure our defeat at the hands of Yale is tempered by the fact that we scored a touchdown...
...teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole, and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well; and I say it because that system has been 'weighed in the balance and found wanting.' It is no epigram...
...merits of the debate of the principal disputants affirmative 20, negative 31. When the debate had been thrown open to the house, Mr. McIntosh spoke for the affirmative; Messrs. Bowen, Darling and others for the negative. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood affirmative 1, negative...