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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which the students take to empty a glass at one draught. If a newly initiated member, - a so-called "Fuchs" is present and becomes at all "fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need only beckon to him or call out "Bierjunge," when his glass is refilled and he has to empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior. If, however, the "Fuchs" thinks that he has been unjustly...
...life which deprives him of the chance of getting a fair amount of physical exercise, he should, if he wishes to keep himself in health, reduce the amount of carbon which he has been in the habit of introducing into his system. Fats and alcohol should be tabooed. The need of fresh air in all exercise is very great, and this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley...
...much the same position as playing ball in the yard. It is a thing not wrong in itself; but merely improper in college. Striking out any rule about the matter puts the crime on the same ground as stealing books from the library. Stealing is everywhere an offence, and needs no rule to make it so. Men do not need to be told about that which by everyone everywhere is or should be deemed immoral...
...ministry practicable in this 19th century? Some professions are incidental and transitory. This we cannot so consider. Men need good leadership to-day. The country will always feel the effects of the pusilanimity of the ministers of fifty years ago in the anti-slavery agitation. Many reforms await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they...
...inducements to students by offering prizes at the freshman examinations. We do not know what is the practice at Yale, but at Harvard no prizes of any description are awarded at the freshman examinations. Harvard depends upon her own merits to attract students to its halls, and does not need any little system like that which the Princetonian advocates, to add to the size of her already rapidly growing freshman classes...