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...address was concerning "What the students can do for the college." The first idea of the average student on being asked this question, would be, that he might best serve his college by excelling in athletics, but while it is a good thing to excel in body, in strength and in health, only a few can possibly serve the college in this way. There are other ways for you to serve the college. Harvard represents a peculiar policy of government; a policy which gives freedom to its students and which can only be successful as its results are successful. Students...
...laziness and selfishness, but very few freshmen paid any attention to the the appeal. Now a freshman banjo club is in progress of formation and the members of '92 still persist in refusing to bestir themselves. Class feeling and class pride, in so far as to equal if not excel the record of preceding classes, whether in athletics, literary work or musical or social organizations, seems to find little nourishment among the members of the freshman class. Despite the efforts made to form a freshman banjo club, through lack of enthusiasm the plan has proved unsuccessful. The freshmen, in their...
...Northwestern University, prizes are offered to the young ladies who shall excel, first in regularity of attendance at the gymnasium, and, second, in proficiency in general gymnatics...
Those who assembled on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, were treated to the worst exhibition of ball playing which has ever taken place on the field. The visiting team presented a set of men whose playing perhaps equalled, but did not excel that of youths of ten summers. There was no redeeming feature to their play but the work of the pitcher, who was debarred from swift pitching by the lack of a catcher. 90's change battery, Kielty and Vaughn, was put in. Kielty is a promising pitcher, but is a trifle wild. The battery, on the whole, did good work...
...College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience...