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This view of the case has been set forth before, and is, perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...
First, the domain of the newsboy is restricted to an anteroom at Memorial. Next the Senior Class abolish the holy office of chaplain. Now there are whispers that the exercises at the tree on Class Day are a boyish high-school sort of performance, not untainted with rowdyism, and there are students ready to assert that an exercise which shows us up more in the light of clowns than gentlemen might better be dispensed with...
...Yale in respect of her relations with Harvard. It is absurd to think that the experience of the last four years, and the annoyances borne by Harvard and Yale, have been completely thrown away; and that the colleges have not made some advance in their endeavors to check that boyish ardor and misplaced enthusiasm which have been the source of so many quarrels between the two colleges...
...that hot-bed of iniquity, Saratoga, was an insurmountable obstacle to their participation. We are in doubt as to the character of the proposed contests. Are we to be reminded of our childish days by hearing recited "Marco Bozzaris," or "Spartacus to the Gladiators," with the accustomed thunder of boyish eloquence? or are some youthful aspirants to throw at each other their views on the theory of government or the evolution of self-consciousness? An association for this purpose has lately been formed by colleges in the West, and meets very soon at a town in Ohio. We have...
...equally beneficial under whatever motive it is undertaken, but this is not true of scholarly or literary work. The true motive of scholarship, and the one which, above all others, needs encouragement in American colleges, is self-improvement, without regard to other men or other objects, not a boyish desire to be first in a contest for prizes...