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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secured; for if any one will take the trouble to glance over the list of those who have led their classes during past years, he will find the names of some of the finest men who have ever been graduated from an institution of learning. Let the undergraduate look at the men who have taken the highest rank within his short memory, and he will be convinced of this. Scholarship has none too much recognition at Harvard, not so much by any means as it deserves. These men might not be representatives of the mass of students, but they would...
...positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists...
Saturday we finished our semi-annual grind, and it may be interesting to look about us and see how our student-brethren of other colleges have passed their ordeals. The semi-annual examination has just been ended at the military academy at West Point. Considerable surprise is expressed over the result, there being a very large number of cadets who failed to pass. Five were sent back from the third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them...
...that bazing has long since been but a memory among us, we may look impartially at the custom as it exists in other colleges, and, perhaps, see others now, as others once...
...colleges? No, we think not. We feel sure that, now that examinations are over, you will come forward and avert the pending misfortune; but, because the amount necessary to be raised is so ridiculously small, do not, therefore, think that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University a favor, in thus coming to its rescue. You are, on the contrary, making an investment which will yield you a handsome return. It is for your own interest that...