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...Hither and thither across...
...tariff question Harvard has been always accused of a partiality toward free trade, and business men have often felt that in sending their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college...
...hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this...
...game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither and thither, we see brilliant runs, beautiful passes. long kicks, and clever tricks in dodging and tackling that would never have been learned, save by long practice. And again we are brought face to face with the fact that we have reduced another game to a science...
...body a command of resources, and so clear a method of exposition are needed. The faculty of late have been devoting their valuable time to the obstruction of athletics: would they mind considering a subject that is of vital importance to the proper education of a class of men hither-to unnoticed...