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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...checked, and things reduced to the basis of the time not long passed, when the present crusade against professionalism was unheard of. The objection of the faculty, it was urged in reply, was to professionalism in toto. Toleration of it in a modified form even was as bad almost as its most aggravated development as now illustrated at Yale, and the experience of the England Universities in recent years would teach us that nothing less than a total abolition of all connection with the professional and sporting world, with lines sharply defined, would serve as a remedy...
...Columbia the trustees have laid down for young women a course of studies which is almost identical with that pursued by the undergraduates. The course comprises Latin, Greek, modern languages, political science, history, English literature, moral and intellectual philosophy, geology and botany...
...latter fact is clearly so we have only to cite the case of one of the dormitories in the yard. Take Matthews for an example. This building cost, twelve years ago, about $100,000, perhaps a little more. Its net returns for the year 1883 were nearly $10,000, almost 10 per cent on the capital invested. If this has been the regular return since it was built the rent has more than covered the original outlay, in twelve years. 10 per cent is much more than Mr. Hooper, the treasurer, can obtain from any ordinary investment, in fact twice...
...corpulent, take Turkish baths and long walks for about a week or ten days, by which time you will be ready to begin work. When a person strips for the first time in the season, he naturally feels light and strong, and equal to almost anything. If you allow this feeling to carry you away and do too much you will be thrown back in your work. How often have I heard men remark after the first day's exercise, "I can hardly walk upstairs; I'm sore all over; I don't think I'll strip again...
...minutes. When one is wounded he is led away and his victor must fight a fresh foe. If he succeeds in vanquishing all comers he is declared the class champion and is obliged to fight all challengers. The wound received is not dangerous but always leaves a scar, and almost every student one meets in a university town bears the marks of his encounters upon his face. Strange to say these scars are not considered proof of his unskillfulness but as marks of glory...