Word: mays
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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There is plenty of good material in College for the Eleven, and all that is needed is practice and support. The Club needs more members; and all undergraduates, particularly Freshmen, whether players or not, are earnestly invited to join at once, All who desire may become members by calling at Matthews 55 or Holyoke...
...question of the anxious Bentonians, in reference to the whereabouts of their friend, was answered by the sight of that friend moodily retiring from the spot where Bowie had passed him, evidently disheartened and disgusted. He may have trained on wrong principles; his style of running was certainly not good, - being too showy, and not at all easy or smooth; worse than all, he betrayed a lack of pluck, - a prime condition of success...
...class there be) who, while having the wisdom and the character to guide her aright, decline to develop their qualities more palpably to the public eye. "There is such a thing as being so fastidious about means as never to be able to reach a practical end. There may likewise be a form of conditional sluggishness which covers an aversion to the labors and obligations incident to successful exertion under the guise of want of opportunity." It is beyond dispute that under no other government is so full and free opportunity given to all usefully to develop every natural...
...President of Yale College, "our foremost rival in good works") shall raise the tone of the public press on questions of "morals and politics, law and government." "The rudiments of an education such a class should be taught at this University." The foundation of learning being well laid, it may be added that "the chief instrument to gain complete success must be the power to write with knowledge, with clearness, and with force...
...besides the primary duty of solving these problems there will always be need to counteract the "specious and superficial sophistry of the half-fledged demagogues of the hour." It is therefore at once a "dictate of prudence and a precept of patriotism," to guide aspiring youth so that they may adequately grapple with the difficulties before them, and show themselves in all respects to be "exalted models, both able and willing to prove what it truly is to constitute a state." That from some source men well qualified for this purpose will come is the fond belief of Americans...