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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which shall be affixed the signatures of the men in Weld, to the effect that the Faculty consider the need of furnaces in our entries. A suggestion has also been made that the petition would be more readily granted, were the men in each entry willing to share among them the expense of the fuel; and though the Faculty would scarcely permit this, I am sure almost every one would gladly submit to such small increase of expense (were it necessary) for the sake of the additional comfort gained...
Disgusted with the wild enthusiasm and with the incessant squabbling push which they see among their less fortunate fellow-countrymen, they determine to display their importance by being as different as possible from their fellow-countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate...
...seen by the Club. A careful statement of the financial condition of the boat-club will be found in the article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to pay the money. He is not pleased...
...from the use of brains or of muscle in college, then will be the time when indifference will vanish. With us, contest for rank and scholarships is not a contest of brains. He takes the highest rank who happens by any means to amass the highest number of marks among the men who try for high marks. The scholarships support fools who have simply a moderate capacity for work and very empty pockets. Nothing more is necessary to secure such honors as are held out, and yet we wonder at the indifference of those who cannot be made...
...report calls attention to various needs of the University, among which is "a new hall to contain lecture-rooms for the College." "At least sixteen lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...