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...sake of a large majority, however, who believe in fair motives on the part of our rivals, it is simple justice to say that such opinions as the foregoing have been confined to the certain few; but, nevertheless, the influences of such conclusions are altogether in the wrong direction, and should be corrected with all the thoroughness possible. If the Base-Ball Association is to be changed, let it by all means be done with a frankness and belief in good motives and yet with iron-clad by-laws as well. - Yale Courant...
...like from those old papers. If the authorities knew what a help it is to the students when grinding for an examination to see a copy of a former paper in the same course, we are sure they would bestir themselves and see that this trifling wrong be righted...
...nights of spring ??? little band of players would go to ??? ton or wherever else there dwelt ??? maidens and serenade them. T ??? were the days of chivalry, and ??? players were amply rewarded by the rustling of a blind or the raising of a sash. Not infrequently the Sodality serenaded the wrong house, as when they uttered their sweet music to the attentive ears of Judge X's servant-maids while his fair daughters were at Judge Y's dance...
...raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations...
...guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge of the lines of study best for them, or to form opinions...