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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...admitted that there is a spirit of rivalry between Harvard and Yale "which often carries the students of both colleges to excess," but it is denied that there is a "quarrel waged with bitterness." The Harvard HERALD says that our Chambers street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...Princeton Tiger, which comes along at most uncertain intervals, is, we regret to say, very disappointing. The illustrations are very often execrable, while much of the poetry and prose is unutterably flat. To be sure, some very clever things, both in drawing and writing, may be found in its columns, but much that is at least in bad taste finds room there as well. A great contrast is presented in the Princetonian, which is undoubtedly in the front rank of college papers. Its make up and appearance are excellent, and it is most entertaining reading. It scores a point...
...present necessity that we are induced to make the reading a part of our regular work. Many never take any English course in college, and of these there are many who read little or no standard English literature outside their regular work. This gives a reason for the cry often heard against our colleges, that their graduates are not made thoroughly acquainted with their own literature. The prescribed writing of themes and forensics tends to give to all a slight foundation in writing English, and it seems that so long as prescribed studies remain in vogue in the university, along...
...most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat in the hard work of life "do not go muckers" in anything like the same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable courses so often. They are supposed to do so, because when they do they are marked men, and their friends tell stories of them and lament over them, whereas their rivals sink under the waters silently; but as a matter of fact, they are ruined past hope in much smaller proportion. Granting other...
...which of the three sets of arguers are right, though our sympathies go with the last, and a good deal of respect with the first; but we want to point out a fact or two. One is that the people who, of all others, seek efficiency most, and that often at the direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help...