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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Saturday's hare and hounds race finished the autumn season of the Harvard Bicycle Club. Last year the club could hardly be said to exist outsides of its officers, and gave no evidence of life except two hare and hounds races and a race meeting at Beacon Park. But at the beginning of the term it was resolved to make an effort to put the bicycle club on its legs again, and under the new board of officers the effort has succeeded beyond expectation. The first run was to Lexington, where the club had an informal dinner and returned...
...misapprehended and feared. But the college press have too long exerted a beneficial effect to suffer the suspicion of doubt as to their utility. Their generally just treatment of questions of college interest vindicates their right to a free expression of opinion, if they have any right to exist at all. That this is now a generally accepted belief is indicated by the almost unheard-of interference of college faculties with the exercise of this power. In many of the colleges the growing consideration for student opinion has resulted in the admission of its voice in the councils of college...
Concerning what a college paper should be there now exist a great many ideas, perhaps almost as many as there are college papers published. For by looking over the representative papers from our different colleges we find them to be conducted in many instances upon entirely different plans, and in their exchange columns are able to find many different suggestions as to how other papers should be carried on. We find that the tendency in our opinion, especially among our western college papers, is too much towards literary effort, that is too much space is frequently given for essays, orations...
...national affairs. But the mere fact that no salary is attached to the office deters many men from seeking who would be likely to devote themselves more to their personal interests than those of their constituents. In Germany, what is here popularly termed as the party machine does not exist, owing to the fact that no offices with salaries attached are at the disposal of the Reichstag. But little is paid out for campaign purposes, as the candidates for offices which afford them no pecuntary returns cannot afford...
...combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education is to fit young men for the duties and responsibilities of practical life, the greatest advantages exist in a large town. "The very atmosphere inspires with the restlessness and activity and practical force which reach their highest development in such a city as New York. On every side there is contact with that which is real and positive and pressing. That contact exercises an imperceptible...