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Dates: during 1900-1909
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John Henry Wigmore, delegate from Northwestern University; author of a monumental treatise on the Law of Evidence, a jurist in a day when lawyers are many and jurists rare...
...college of the old type possessed a solidarity which enabled it to fulfill that purpose well enough in its time, although on a narrower scale and a lower plane than we aspire to at the present day. It was so small that the students were all well acquainted with one another, or at least with their classmates. They were constantly thrown together, in chapel, in the classroom, in the dining hall, in the college dormitories, in their simple forms of recreation, and they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly...
...that disintegration the overshadowing interest in athletic games appears to be partly due. I believe strongly in the physical and moral value of athletic sports, and of intercollegiate contests conducted in a spirit of generous rivalry; and I do not believe that their exaggerated prominence at the present day is to be attributed to a conviction on the part of the undergraduates, or of the public, that physical is more valuable than mental force. It is due rather to the fact that such contests offer to students the one common interest, the only striking occasion for a display of college...
...captain and 7, filled in Withington's place at 5. Bacon was at 4 again with Whitney and Sargent at 3 and bow respectively. Leslie, who was at 4 in the Freshman eight last year, rowed 2. The rowing of the University crew seemed fairly good for the first day out, but the slide work was erratic and the men did not time their work so as to be well together at the catch, although the blade work was pretty clean. Voorhees coxswained in place of King, who is sick...
...Hall has a habit of starting the year most auspiciously only to come to grief before its end. If history is not to repeat itself, the managing committee must see that the improved standard of food and service which is now in evidence is not lowered for a single day...