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...They put me in the third division because I was a new student. Their rule is to start a new man down low, and let him work up. We have physics, chemistry, Chaucer, and beginning German; French is my optional. . . . There are five things in which a man must excel here to be highly thought of: Boating, foot-ball, baseball, literary ability, or scholarship. A man that don't count in any one of these is no good, unless he is a thoroughly 'good fellow.' Many of the differences between the students of Eastern and Western Colleges...
...Globe thinks that the great lack of the Harvard eleven at present is in kicking and holding, while the freshmen excel in kicking...
...more important results of President Eliot's recent movement towards the reform of college athletics. Indeed, this may fairly be conjectured to be one of the chief aims of the movement. That college sports of late years have arisen to so high a degree of excellence and have developed teams, as well as individual athletes, of such exceptionally fine records, is surely a matter of congratulation to everybody. But that, at the same time, there has arisen a certain unconscious tendency towards an unwise exclusiveness in our sports, we think cannot be doubted. To produce a team that will play...
...carry out some of the most desirable improvements. Broadly considered, the advantages of English university education may be said to consist in the combination of college and university life. The Scotch universities afford efficient class teaching; the German universities give the fullest instruction by professional lectures; the English universities excel in social advantages and in opportunities for forming valuable friendships. The excessive development of their examination system has certainly injured their teaching; but it has been improving in compass as well as in earnestness, and seems likely to improve still further...
True, there are cases in which the student has a very poor constitution to start with, but, owing to his ambition to excel, studies beyond his powers. To such our remarks cannot apply, but the indisputable fact remains, that were we to perform our work faithfully from day to day, it would seem much easier, and we should see that the fault was not altogether to be laid at the door of our instructors...