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...House committee on the whole debated the army appropriation bill yesterday, practically completing its consideration...
...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...
...whole plan is a very strong method of favoring "specialists." The man who takes a general course suffers, from the fact that he did not devote himself more to one subject. It is well enough to encourage men to pursue a special line of study, but to give a man the same rank for eighty-five per cent. in eighteen hours that another man gets for forty-two hours of general work is too much of an incentive...
...consulted with some of the leading professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing but their studies to take their time. Moreover, it gives vent, or rather direction, to that superabundance of animal spirits for which college students are noted, and which...
...position of Princeton in the whole matter is as yet to be officially announced, but to the minds of most of the students, especially the base-ball men, the arguments in favor of a reduction of the number of colleges in the league seem very strong. The feeling as to how many should be excluded is various; some few would say one, the majority think two should withdraw, while a respectable minority think that a league composed of Yale, Harvard and Princeton is by far the best arrangement, both for base-ball and foot-ball...