Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempts are being made among smaller colleges towards the formation of new inter-collegiate leagues. Such things as these are excellent evidence of the value of inter-collegiate associations in stimulating and prompting regular training and systematic exercises in the colleges. The impulse for such training, in any valuable form at least, for both large and small colleges, usually comes from without. Inter-collegiate rivalry is the life of any thorough system of outdoor athletics. That the smaller colleges are taking up with this system and forming leagues for themselves shows not only the force of the example of larger...
...distribution of staples throughout the college buildings. We believe the authorities have not as yet, however, undertaken the difficult task of awakening every student in case of fire, but under the rapid strides of improvement in our government we can confidently look forward to the time when this will form a regular part of the duties of some official. Until that time we beg our "anxious friend" to calm himself and to trust to the natural wakefulness of students as a safety against fire...
Professor Richard's paper on the advantages of college athletics furnishes nothing that is very new on the subject. It is mostly a collection of the old ideas presented in an attractive form by one who has had a large personal experience at Yale. He shows much interest in the matter and this is but natural as his son is a prominent member of the football eleven. In this paper he speaks only of the advantages gained, and on this side he has almost all the prominent educators to back him. Indeed in one place he quotes a long passage...
...body, to be as beneficial as possible it should be accompanied by mental occupation. The mind should be interested in exercise while the body is engaged. But how secure the co-operation of the mind? That is the real problem to solve. Very few can be induced to exercise form a sense of duty. The majority go without it till they suffer illness from the want of it, and then prefer a doctor's remedies to Nature's By the present system of college athletics these requisites are met, if not perfectly, at least as well as it is possible...
...that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that should have the means of doing and should do for young men in the forming period of their lives the best that can be done for them in four years in the way of a liberal education." Such should be and has been the education that Harvard has to offer. Whether or not in the future it will become an advanced high school depends upon...