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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no need to urge the value of boxing as exercise; nor should any man look askance at the sport from its association with the professional ring. Ex-President Roosevelt found it his most valuable exercise in college. Both his physique and his vocabulary were invigorated...
...interesting to look for a moment into the life of Governor Long as an undergraduate.--before he dreamed of the rewards which were to crown his later efforts. An earnest student whose ability was recognized while still in college, Governor Long in his reminiscences tells of his dreary days in Cambridge. In this essay so gracefully done by Mr. Thayer is an excerpt from Governor Long's writings which is especially intimate and interesting...
...result of my few terms at Hebron Academy was that I entered Harvard College in 1853, at fourteen years of age. . . . I look back upon my college education with less satisfaction than any other part of my life. I was not thoroughly fitted. I was too young. The mistake was made, with a well-meant but mistaken view of saving me from the 'dangers of college life,' of boarding me for the first two or three years a mile away from the college--as if there were any dangers or, if there were, as if the best part...
Politics, as Mr. Frothingham points out in another column, is coming more and more to be looked upon as a fit business for college men. This is due to two factors. The economics and political science faculties of our universities have for years been graduating men with idealistic plans for improving social conditions. And the example of successful scholar-politicians, such as Lodge, Root, and Wilson has inspired other educated men to look to public life for careers...
...young man who cares to look into the matter will be very welcome at any of the State Armories and if he will ask for an officer and talk the matter over with him. I believe he will at once become interested. Officers can be found at all the armories on almost any evening...