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...dormitory. The comfort of men who never have boarded, and never will board, at Memorial, depends on the success of the Dining Association to keep prices down and prevent the boarding places from being crowded ; and in the same way, the competition that another good dormitory would exert would lower the exorbitant rent that rooms in any desirable locality now command. We must have another soon, and it is certainly better for the college to get the income from it than for outsiders. But certain it is that unless the college finds means to put up a dormitory pretty soon...
...most direct cause of any increase of this sort lies in the continually enlarging number of Harvard graduates who settle in the West and South and who exert their influence directly and indirectly towards increasing the representation of their localties among the students of the college. The Harvard clubs now firmly established in all the larger cities of the country exercise a very considerable influence of this sort. But it is open to the students themselves even before they go forth from the college as graduates and take their positions in the world to exert an influence in drawing students...
...over the English records one finds more than half have been made in handicap races. For in a good handicap the scratch man has to do his best to win ; while, as is often the case here, in a scratch race the best man does not even have to exert himself...
...Harvard, and a few more words on the same subject will not be out of place. In a university of the size of Harvard there is necessarily more or less intemperance, and it is obvious that a body of men who band themselves together in the right way may exert a good influence on the whole student body, so far as this question is concerned. But has this association with its formidable name, and its imposing shingles pursued such a course as to bring forth good ? Has it held meetings of any recent date to set forth its views...
Science, he thinks, has exerted and will continue to exert a very great influence upon the training pursued at American colleges. He thinks the most available and important studies in a liberal course of study to be "Mathematics, leading to physical and natural science, and language, leading to political and moral science." These four elements are the "food, air, exercise and rest of physical growth." Not many years ago sectarian influence was very strong among the colleges, invading the trustees and faculty. Hence we see all over the country feeble, ill-endowed institutions, caring little for sound learning but strong...