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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact is that the scholar does not always appear well in politics. Take the government of our schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of a boss, so that they are not better nor worse than the powers of administration at Washington. Take the organization of the school at Andover, where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three...
...must be acknowledged to be of the greatest value. The fact is frequently remarked that students who have given the most brilliant promises of future success in preparatory schools frequently take but a mediocre rank in college. While the saying is trite that high rank in the freshman year often means but a subordinate position at graduation, on the other hand it is almost a college tradition that the man who ranks high in the later years of his course usually stands in the lower or middle section of his class in his earlier years at college, principally, we presume...
...first time in the autumn of 1822, when I entered as sophomore the class of which he was a member. As we both had our rooms out of college and in the same vicinity, we were often together in passing to and from the recitation room, and became well acquainted. He was genial, sociable, and agreeable, and always a gentleman in his deportment. Not meditative and shy, like his subsequently distinguished classmate Hawthorne, he was uniformly cheerful. He had a happy temperament, free from all envy and every corroding passion or vice...
...many symptoms of imbecility often shown by the authorities of some colleges, none has ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought...
...Yale News says that before the Harvard-Yale game "every man in the nine was perfection; now he is damnation." It is too often the custom after a defeat to shower abuse on every individual member of the defeated nine, instead of regarding the affair in a philosophical manner, well knowing that in base-ball an almost perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months...