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...feared by some that the intercollegiate athletic contests of the present day are tending more and more to make the greater number of students take exercise only vicariously. To those who apprehend a danger in this tendency, any effort to provide a game in which a large number of men can obtain active, agreeable exercise will commend itself...
...authority of the Bible is the authority of its truth as we apprehend it, and not the authority of accuracy alone. There is a broad distinction between these theories. The old theory is that the books themselves were inspired but the new theory teaches that men were inspired who led religious lives, taught Christianity and who incidentally wrote the books...
...secrecy and exclusiveness. They are to my mind the greatest (and a most insidious) evil in the present constitution of the college, and are the nurseries both of extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid...
...members of the class will show no negligence in signing immediately. It is an old established custom for the sophomore class to hold a dinner, and it would be a pity to have it given up for lack of subscribers as the junior dinner was. While we do not apprehend that there will be any trouble in securing eighty names, still we would urge upon each member of the class individually to see that his name is put down on the list. A little forethought in this way will save a good deal of trouble hereafter...
...York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced...