Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hard drinking and brilliant swordplay are the chief requisites for glory at the universities. A German student who does not duel (they all drink) is socially ostracised ; while he who excels in both fencing and drinking becomes at once the idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...
...individuals to sacrifice their own tastes and convenience for the good of mankind. Some call the total abstinence doctrine narrow, a "moral strait jacket," but the lecturer thought differently. "I propose," said he, "to do no act, to set no example, which, if followed, may bring ruin on my fellow...
Having reached this step the study of altruism is outside the field of the naturalist. The lecture believed that the spirit of Christianity rests on these old altruistic motives; and that it also fosters them, towards fellow beings, and towards the Supreme Being...
...first middleweight contest was that between Gordon Woodbury, '86, and Peirce, M. I. T., '86. The latter was considered a crack man by his fellow students, and warm work was expected. Peirce held off in the first round and but little was done till the close, when Woodbury got the measure of his man. In the second round Woodbury did some hard hitting, and punished his opponent very severely. This ended the round with Woodbury winner. In the other and final round Woodbury was matched against H. P Decker, and was again victor, winning a silver medal-the first prize...
During the past few years several disagreeable controversies have arisen and much ill-feeling has been occasioned by the manner in which intercollegiate contests have been conducted. Students in their conventions represent no one but themselves, and often act without responsibility and authority, committing their fellow-students to a questionable policy and establishing precedents which are detrimental to the interests of college sports. Therefore...