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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...introduced Dr. Smith of the Scotch delegation, who told of the gradual growth of religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short services with the patients. This was a great step, but more was required. Many of the students were going down hill, and efforts were made to save them. There was formed a Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke...
...college to choose, to go to the one or the other. There is also another important influence brought to bear on students at school, and that is the gratuitous advice given by the principal or members of the faculty as to which college a man ought to select. This often makes the influence of one college predominate over another, for if a student sees the mass of his classmates going to a certain college he very naturally joins in with them, although at first he preferred some other place, The following is a list of the number of men coming...
...value of historical sources must be viewed through the motives of the writers. A letter written for publication is quite different from one of a private nature. This question, fortunately, is not often a difficult one. There remains the question of the comparative value of an unconscious and a conscious record. The former is a record, pure and simple the latter is apt to be influenced by personal considerations. It cannot, therefore, be so untrustworthy...
...possible impression of the life he is about to enter, and his first impressions are sure to be his strongest ones. Moreover, the fear of censure and criticism, mentioned by you editorially a day or two since, obliges many freshmen to entertain sophomores not only against their inclinations, but often contrary to principles they have been brought up to observe...
...jerseyed men pounded his delivery badly. He is in prime condition now, and has sworn vengeance for the drubbing his pitching got before. No one here doubts his ability to outwit his opponents if he is in good condition. He has done it so often before that the faith in him is unbounded. There is little chance that Yale will lose the championship this year...