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...said there were few things that many people dread more than beggary. Each has his idea of what he wants, the loss of which would perhaps mean beggary to him, and he might suffer and die sooner than give it up. It is curious to think how true this is of every member of the hurrying crowds we see around us every day; each with his small function in the world, and each with his fear for something, the loss of which would mean beggary to him. "Be master of thyself" and no material loss can then mean anything...
...Adding together the number of men that '88 furnished to the Glee Club during each of the four years, we get a to at of twenty eight. Of this number eighteen had been members of the Freshman Glee Club. Now these totals of twenty-eight and eighteen do not mean that twenty-eight different '88 men sang on the Glee Club, or that eighteen out of the twenty-two on the '88 Freshman Glee Club, sang on the 'varsity. They mean only that the class of '88 was represented twenty-eight times, one man singing each of the four years...
...attracts large audiences which more than +++ Sever 11, but the college men attending them make but a small proportion of the number. While Mr. Black's lectures are of a nature entertaining to all they are designed especially for Harvard men and greater numbers should attend. This does not mean that there is any desire to exclude outsiders, but merely to draw more students than now come. Were these popular lectures given in a large hall as has been suggested many times doubtless fewer college men and outsiders also would be turned away from the door. At any rate since...
...inclined to agree with the writer that athletics have grown to be an ideal too predominating and overmastering in our colleges; that physical education with college men has become, perhaps, too interesting and absorbing to the neglect of mental education. We do not mean to undervalue athletics, to cry against them or advocate less interest in them. They are important factors of a college life, in bettering health and morals, and, by intercollegiate contests, bringing colleges into a desirable closer contact with each other. But the recognition that college athletics predominate too much is not confined only to outsiders...
...best tactics and manoeuvers of the game, going to other colleges and universities and coaching their teams, in most cases for salaries. In this way the game is made more than ever a matter of money, and Yale graduates become foot-ball professionals. We do not mean to say that the game should be restricted, but that other teams should gain their knowledge through contests on the field or through their own inventions, but not by a purchase from a Yale graduate of what has been entrusted to him for the benefit of his alma mater. Our victories...