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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stand in no need at the present time of more monks, more dilettanti, more impotent theorists; the genius of the nineteenth century is not alone the contemplative, but the active life. In Mr. Dwight's article we find a theory of education of which the culminating triumph would be a character like Spinoza, The present interest in athletics may be pushed to an extreme; if so, it is but a healthy reaction and will soon right itself. We must try to check the evil without resigning the good; for, at all events, the "muscular Christian" is preferable to the languid...
...room which another is anxious to get, it is impossible for the thing to be done. He who first drew the room, it is said, must hold it, no matter how many homeless wretches may long to rest their limbs within. We have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make over his right to several men, as it were, who will struggle among themselves, and the luckiest will take the room...
...Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true gentleman." It utters, then, this pious wish: "Would that from beneath our own bluffness and carelessness of appearance there might never crop anything less of true, manly courtesy...
...Club Crews, thus deprived of many of their best men, find it hard to keep afloat, and for want of material rather than pluck, do much less real work than formerly. Still the general effect of the new system is very beneficial, for by affording more opportunities for rowing than the old one, it keeps more crews on the river and is therefore likely to develop a larger number of good oarsmen...
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