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...past month. Johnny Ward will coach the team up to the end of May, so it promises to start out well. They have some fine players in the college this year. it is to be hoped that, if the nine be not so successful as anticipated, no such boyish action will be taken as in the case of the Lacrosse club some years ago, which was broken up by the collegians because they failed to win matches. [Clipper...
...York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had an enemy, nor ever was for an hour the object of ill will. And yet the boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak, in Chancellor Crosby's place at the chapel desk, was always the signal for an outburst of applause. While he was reading the morning lesson, the students marked every emphasized word with a universal and simultaneous stamp...
...send out-men who have an earnest purpose as we believe most men do have,-the better will it be for the country. There has always been a silly hue and cry against college men in any occupation, which certain would-be wits have made on account of those boyish ideas that all young men have. But let us not, like our Michigan contemporary, give up all that is good in order to add our voices to this clamor. The proportion of intelligent men is much larger among collegemen than among those voters without a college education. Let us, then...
...grounds. Then a stout Princeton man stepped out and spent several minutes in finding a place to put the ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan...
...Harvard was aiming more than any other college in America to discipline the character of her students. Harvard did not want to see her students go out into the world undecided what to do. She did not want to make their four years at college only four years of boyish study. What she did want was to turn out real men-men who would know where to go and what to do, whether they had studied a profession or not. Harvard was more of an American, more of a democratic college than any other in the country. The students...