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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...naturalist, he belongs, as his father did, to the first names of America. A large fortune makes it also possible for him to promote the interests of the museum financially. To him it must be attributed, that the museum has been entirely withdrawn from the influence of an often-changing government, and has been transferred to Harvard university...
...their institution as one of the smaller colleges which has struggled bravely against poverty, has educated men who have taken prominent places in public and private life, and has inculcated and continues to teach sound learning and pure morality. The students whose rough exteriors have been referred to are often the most deserving and ambitious, and in after life they seldom fail to honor their Alma Master. Dartmouth College needs no other or better defence than the remarkable oration of Daniel Webster, spoken years ago, in the celebrated case before the Supreme Court. [Ex.x...
...This resolution would unjustly prevent many good men from entering into inter-collegiate athletics who are fairly entitled to do so, who, while pursuing professional studies, are in need of the exercise and recreation afforded by such sports, and who by previous training and habits of life are often especially well fitted to get the fullest advantage from such pursuits. As to the possibility of fraud, the rules of the Undergraduate Inter-collegiate Athletic Association amply cover the ground. These rules established by the students render the college itself directly responsible, and make it practically impossible that men can here...
...sixth resolution conferring all games to the home grounds, they consider as objectionable, because some colleges have none, and because, as has been so often said, it is fairer in deciding games to play on neutral ground. Then...
...fact it is only the managers of the "machine" who make any objection. All others ought to be interested to bring this element forward. If a taste and desire to take a proper share in the government is not displayed by men when young they become indifferent and often ashamed to begin when they are older. Every college man should be prepared to take his share of the work bravely, for, having the best education, college men ought not take positions in the rear and allow themselves to be led in politics by men who are their inferiors except...