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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best material of the college is not in them. But we cannot hope to effect the improvement by pressure brought to bear upon men who have never felt an interest, or taken active part in athletic sports. The work should be more gradual, and more thorough. The training schools of athletics as of learning, must be the preparatory schools. All our best men in athletics came here with high local reputations, and it is upon them that...
...never beaten '86 in the tug-of-war. In 1883, '86 pulled six inches from '85, and this year equaled the former performance...
...report on the University library, Mr. Justin Winsor describes the method by which books are obtained from the library by students from the Annex, and at the same time, explains what has puzzled so many students, why Annex students are never seen drawing out books. Mr. Winsor says: "A pass book, containing titles of books wished for, is sent by a messenger to Gore Hall twice a day. Many of the titles thus presented have all the defects of inexactness and ambiguity which come from inexperience in using titles, and, as it devolves upon the library attendants to attach shelf...
...sometimes regarded as a noble example of self-control. But, I tell you, drunkenness in itself depends not on the quantity, not on the quality a man can take, but on the effect. Some men can be moderate drinkers, but thousands cannot. My father was, but his son never could, and never can be. You call a man weak-minded because he cannot do what you can. I say, he is not weak-minded-physical infirmity is not weak-mindedness. Whether a man gets drunk or not, depends solely on his temperament. Negatively good, inactive people can be temperate...
...make of yourselves what you will; but a thing once done, is done forever. Live, then, that you may have nothing to look back upon, when you are as old as I am, with regret. Your memories will not fail you; and if you err now, you will have never to be forgotten stains on your lives. You are all authors; each of you at the end of each day has written a page; but what you write can never be erased. Write you books clean, then; live that your memories in old age may be sweet...