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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the graduates whose faces appear in the picture are Capt. Robert J. Cook, George Adee. Walter Camp, Chauncey Depew, Beecher. Stagg, and a score of others. The artist is Howland of New York, brother of Judge Howland, who is a member of the Yale corporation...
...government, who has the complete management and control of the whole school, and is responsible only to the head officer of education of his district. He has under him a corps of about a dozen instructors, two in each branch. There are usually two overseers in each gymnasium whose duty it is to keep watch over the students and to see that the rules of the institution are obeyed. Each student recites about once in two months and on thee recitations alone his mark is based. It his work is unsatisfactory he is soon expelled...
What is needed in the world is a greater number of men with vigorous minds and vigorous bodies. In our colleges and schools there are too many men whose instruction consists solely of words, men whose habits of life and whose personal appearance gives no inspiration whatever to their pupils, men veritably "curiosities out of museums." The same thing applies to journalism, to politics, to all the spheres of human activity. The great question before each of us is not what we shall do, but how we shall do it. We should evangelize our intelligence, choose our place...
...without giving any return. Second come those who seek to pay their way, and will receive nothing they do not earn. They do not realize that they nevertheless live on the sacrifice of others, And last are those who try to put love and sympathy in their work, and whose greatest aim is to do more for others than is done for them. If we all work in this way, with our object to do good to others and to become masters of ourselves, we may have no fear of beggary...
More important than this is the fact that railroads, in their eager competition. secretly give low rates to firms shipping large quantities of goods. Such firms are thus enabled to undersell their less favored rivals, whose destruction then becomes a matter of time. This, as well as the favoritism shown to large towns, is a direct result of excessive competition...