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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conducive to neither health, comfort, nor convenience." The first clause of this statement - that the present dinner-hour is not conducive to health - we positively deny. It is, we believe, a fact, and supported by all writers on hygiene, that the healthiest time for the heartiest meal of the day is near noon, not later, at least, than three o'clock. It has been said, however, that this advantage of the present hour of dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding and following dinner. This may be so; the great tension of the mind attendant...
...regard to exercise. Two consecutive hours a day for exercise are certainly to be desired, but if dinner were at six through the winter months alone, there would be but one hour for the purpose, and were dinner at five there would be none at all. The latter, then, presents no advantage; does the change to six o'clock present any? To answer this question fairly, it must be kept in mind that not the interests of the boating and bail-clubs alone are to be consulted, and that the recreation, for perhaps it is nothing more, of the still...
...presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems so certainly to await us on graduation, that we are impatient of delay, and hail the day with joy which introduces us to life, and bids us put to test the mighty projects fermenting in our brains. At this time of life men are wont to regard themselves as specially destined to some great work, which assures their continued existence of necessity. They were made...
...modern policy of the College becomes more evident year by year. The day of "soft things" is passed; the very lecture-rooms wear an appearance of having the decks swept and ready for action. "Occasional examinations" are scattered broadcast in every elective, and heavy is the list of deads. The traditional softness of the junior year is rapidly assuming the form of a myth; an unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean...
...thoughtless moment laid aside, with which he bore the pain of a long and distressing illness. His tastes and habits were those of a scholar, but he had a singular loyalty for and unselfish interest in all that concerned the College and his fellow-students. On the last day of his college life, in May, 1872 (the day which ended for him a long struggle between love of his work and associations here, on the one hand, and constantly increasing suffering on the other), he reluctantly left a match game in progress on Jarvis Field, and went to his home...