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...American students. Dr. Crosby has been fulminating against college sports and inter-collegiate contests. His expressions are bold and radical, and, it must be said, will have a considerable weight as representing the views of a large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people, while receiving his criticisms for what truth they contain, cannot help perceiving how violent and one-sided are his charges. It is not the system of college sports that is wrong, but the excesses into which those sports may, but, as we think, have but little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/25/1882 | See Source »

...years' drawings before him should have an advantage over a man who has but one or two. If a man does not get a room in his first drawing it seems that he is to be considered after those who have never drawn at all. It would be much fairer to let the freshmen take their chances with all the rest of the men in the college and draw in the general drawing. But the one great evil is the abuse of the right of transfer. The remedy is to stop transferring of rooms. Allow no transfer and the chances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

...table-cloth to be seen. Of course, we would miss the singing, which, to me at least, is an agreeable feature; but still, the advantages to be gained would far outweigh this one thing which, indeed, is not pleasant to every one. This would certainly be a much fairer arrangement than the present one, the propriety of which is questionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1882 | See Source »

...toasting belles much fairer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 3/8/1882 | See Source »

...disproportional part of their time to Forensics. Besides, what are the advantages of their restriction? Apparently none. It would certainly be more interesting to the instructor to read Forensics on a variety of topics, and if the number of subjects to select from was larger, it would be much fairer, as more men could take a subject with which they are somewhat acquainted, or perhaps have made a specialty of. We believe that we are speaking the sentiments of a majority of the Senior Class when we ask that the number of the subjects hereafter be increased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

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