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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this were a primary school, or the average age of the Seniors was five years instead of twenty-two, it would be unnecessary to say anything against the system. Perhaps one boy can learn the alphabet more quickly than another, but it is necessary to look after both to have them learn it at all. With Seniors the case is not precisely the same. Most of them are anxious and willing to learn, and the Faculty has unquestionably done much in the last few years to aid them. Some unnecessary restraints have been done away with and if others remain...
...game last spring, it was largely science against strength. Their long kicks were fine to look at, but really availed them little. Their sending eight or nine men into a rush did no good, for there was no one to be rushed, as Rollins would invariably kick the ball one side and then get out of the way. They ran till they were caught, and then "had it down." Harvard's men ran as far as they could and then passed it, and had a decided advantage throughout the game. In justice to the Canadians, it should be said that...
...among most of our students a meaning quite foreign to that prevalent in the outer world. To us it implies not only favorable opportunities for developing our mental qualities, but also a certain liberality in choosing to take advantage of such opportunities. To be careless about our studies, to look down upon any show of energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges. "To work," in the language...
...take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined his walls with boards painted to look like bindings took a step in the right direction. His room looked well, at any rate. At the same time expensive bindings are not the thing. They are well enough on drawing-room tables, but, far from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat...
...take down his ponderous volumes from the shelves, and after having brushed off the dust which has been accumulating for eight decades, to obtain a view of the country as it appeared at the end of the last century. Besides, this is the Centennial year, when people everywhere are looking up the records of the past. So let every New-Englander and New-Yorker, and every one who is interested in any New England or New York town, look up President Dwight's account of this place eighty years...