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...college world. With all the conclusions of the Post, we are glad to say, we entirely concur. The idea that college faculties have no right of interference in athletics as we have already said is quite untenable. This opinion is also expressed by the Post. "But there is a wide difference," it continues, "between the exercise in each college of a general supervisory power over sports, and the attempt to establish an inter-collegiate code, as a glance at the resolutions themselves will show. They bring out very distinctly, the moment we examine them in detail, the fact that there...
...then, too, the question may be asked, more often perhaps than is agreeable to the Alumnus, who fondly believed that its fame was world-wide. "Where is Dartmouth College?" While everybody knows the location of Harvard and Yale, few persons out of the State of New Hampshire can say where Dartmouth is. And even in New Hampshire itself, there are people who would be at a loss to direct the stranger how to reach it. In going from New York or Boston the passenger by the train alights at a shabby little station called Norwich. He is in the State...
...little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays he drops a bit of autobiography full of interest. "The regular course of studies," he says, "the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded...
...Talking of the wonders of Phrenology," said the enthusiast, "There is L_, whose bumps were analyzed, and his character determined to be a suitable one for a cavalry officer. Well, sir, in a few months time only, that fellow was know fair and wide for his terrible charges. He had bought and was running the College Book Store...
...cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes to give these affairs world wide notoriety; to have the insignificant details of each day's preliminary practice published in the newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages...