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...communication which we publish this morning on "Foot-ball and Profanity." That the communication is just in its charges cannot be denied by any one who was present at the recent game on Jarvis Field, but that our outside readers in particular are all too likely and ready to assign to it far too much significance in regard to the tone and character of our foot-ball team, is quite as undeniable. The evil, we have to confess, does, does exist in a noticeable degree, and being interested in the reputation and welfare of the college we trust the reminder...
...customary of late years for the senior crew to win the class races. Moreover, as this is the last opportunity for eighty-five to retrieve her bedimmed rowing record, it is expected that her crew will put forth every possible effort to take the place which their seniority would assign to them...
That note taking is an important element of study is shown by the fact that some of the instructors in college examine the note books of those in their sections, and assign marks which are made to count a certain percentage of the year's total. Just now important an element of study note taking is, perhaps it is hard to say. Doubtless the instructor regards a good note-book in a certain degree as an index of good attendance, and good work. The value to the student is here seen in the mark that he gets. But marks cannot...
...enjoying a walk does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action, if I had gone out when to do so caused me trouble and annoyance. We might, in this case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing the real question. We may assume that...
...tuition fees but $125,382, while the value of all grounds and buildings is but $3,192,840, and the number of volumes in their libraries but 161,302. The number of students, however, in the preparatory collegiate departments compares favorably with the older states, New York only sure assign Ohio. How much better endowed the colleges of Massachusetts are than those of Ohio may be seen at a glance. With but seven colleges they have an income from productive funds of $291,812, and receipts from tuition of $166,538, and 303,126 volumes in the libraries...