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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean models to be used for our colleges? Are Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia to gain glory by the strength of their students' muscles, and virtue by betting and drinking? Is the athletic contest before a miscellaneous crowd the best way to develop mental culture and moral health? Is it not even a very poor method of ministering to bodily soundness? Do athletes live long? Let medical men answer. I am ashamed to argue such a question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity...
...meeting of the trustees of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, last week, President Cattell submitted the reports for 1882, showing the college to be in an excellent condition. The four years of losses, consequent upon the depression in business during 1875-79, have been regained, and the net gain during the 1882 was over $13,000. The fixed income is larger now than ever...
What, then, do we gain by taking such a roundabout approach to our professional work? The answer is twofold...
...Tufts College catalogue for 1882-83 gives a total of 94 students, a gain of 16 over that of last year, divided as follows: Seniors, 14; juniors, 16; sophomores, 18; freshmen, 19; Divinity School, 19; candidates for the degree...
...will be certain to come in a few years; and that, on the other hand, this is a critical period, deserving of great forbearance from the members. If for a few years members as well as officers and superintendent endeavor to make the Co-operative a success, it will gain a solid footing, and be a great and lasting benefit to the University...