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...known names who support his spelling. The correct way of spelling the name of the board is "Shakespeare." I happened to come across a theme the other day, on one of our well known authors, in the heading of which the writer of the theme had spelt the name wrong. I have no doubt that a low mark will be the result of such a mistake. Now why should we countenance the mistake of persons who ought to know better in this instance? Surely they cannot have read or seen a reprint of the first folio of 1623, for there...
...Hamilton was the first speaker on the negative. He claimed that the policy was wrong in principle, wrong in equity, and that it failed to accomplish its end. He asserted the Californians had neglected to help the Chinaman, that he will assimilate with Americans and their customs, if he only has the chance and that he will, on going home, advance the civilization of his people...
...readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error, and any one can add to either list according to his own judgment without materially disturbing the balance...
...consider a grave one is in the method of training commonly followed. In nearly all American colleges one of the methods of training oarsmen is to run them from one to five miles per day in the hope of thus increasing their staying powers. This I believe to be wrong, for assuredly if a man was training for a running race, he would not practice throwing the hammer. To my mind the only desirable training for a race is to work at the oars or weights...
...course of an editorial on the recent troubles at Princeton the Prencetonian says: "It is both right and natural that students should co-operate with the faculty in the suppression of wrong practices; but it could not be expected they should feel like supporting a decimating policy. Nevertheless even so generous a feeling as sympathy should not be allowed to warp opinion, and while we all feel sympathy for those who have suffered for the errors into which customs already existing have led them, we should not allow anything to supplant our honest judgment on the question of hazing...