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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last year there has been, for a long time, no return at all to the money subscribed for the crew; but the recent victories have done much to encourage subscriptions in that quarter. The clubs, however, which have been gradually going from bad to worse, are in a more hopeless condition than before. Since the future of the crew depends largely on these clubs, something must be done to connect the crew with them, so that the subscriber to the crew shall receive in return, not only the uncertain promise of victory, but the definite personal enjoyment of rowing...
...that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth and lamentation over the degeneracy of the present amongst the foot-ball heroes of the past. - Rugby Meteor...
...enterprise of the editors of the Dartmouth in securing for their paper regular and special correspondents at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges. These letters, we are promised, will be "sprightly, interesting, but honest," and the writers will be the most brilliant that these institutions afford. O happy and much-to-be-envied Dartmouth...
...honors in three sets of languages, but we have none for them combined. These courses for honors in languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...
...Paris and London have; but it is probable that, with the growth of the country, such a class is rapidly growing. Our College has in the past sent forth more eminent literary men than any other; but they - many of them, at least - say they owe not very much to the College: most of their culture was attained after leaving here. In those good old times every man, as I understand it, was forced to study the same subjects. Now a man can, if he have any particular bent, turn his attention to one line of study. The advantage...