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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under the revised rules, is one that can be indulged in with profit and pleasure. We are glad that the games played this fall have shown that it is something mere than an exhibition of brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...
...what more can be looked for? A great deal more is looked for. They are rowing in order to beat Columbia next year at New London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details. The very first thing a crew has to learn is to keep time. Unless they do this there is no use in their ever going out on the water, for they would be beaten badly by a much inferior crew which did keep perfect time. And eighty-nine can learn this only by always keeping the question of time...
...college from which to form an eleven is the remnant of the old '84 team, which was no match at all for the finely trained teams of Princeton and Yale. Still, there are enough good athletes in college to form a strong eleven, and they could learn to play the game. It is to be hoped that Harvard will once more be allowed to enter the inter-collegiate foot-ball contests...
...call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational character of the people. Growth of learning and of colleges or universities must go hand in hand. America is not ready for a German or English university...