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...work. This building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good conduct of the pupils while under their care. When they pass from the recitation rooms they fall under the eye of an entirely different set of officers, who regulate their whole life apart from books. The discipline for offenders consists chiefly of admonition, deprivation of privileges, and seclusion. In extreme cases corporal punishment is administered in the presence of the president. Incorrigibles are expelled. A majority of the teachers and overseers are women. In the department of instruction are seven male...
...hour without coming here, but they always come and we are always glad to see them come. By the way, when the river is bridged at the point what are we going to do with the race course? It will spoil the finish, and, that spoiled, the whole course is spoiled, for we can't have a straight four mile race if the finish is above the point. There would be no good place to see the finish if moved away from there, and the whole pleasure would be spoiled. Well, if the bridge is built the race will have...
...entire pull if the enemy make a sudden effort which is not quickly responded to by his team. Every one finds a tug-of-war the most trying exercise when first practised, because he does not know how to husband his strength, by resting between the heaves when the whole strain is borne by the anchor. Another cause of over-exertion is in not understanding the proper use of the legs, which really should bear the principal strain. In this respect, the tug-of-war is much like the lifting machine, in that the hands and arms merely serve...
...every Harvard student; if there is anything we do not believe in, it is bigotry. There are some practices that all conscientious men believe to be wrong, but in regard to drinking, perfectly upright men may differ. The friends of the society believe that total abstinence is on the whole the best practice; but they respect the views of those who conscientiously differ, and wish it to be distinctly understood that they have no sympathy whatever with those who ground their belief in total abstinence upon anything but common-sense...
...touch of rumor makes the whole world chin, especially the New York World...