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...preparation for the responsibilities of life in the larger republic outside the campus? 3. The system is conducive to the good order of the college. It conduces to good order in furnishing occupation for the physically active. There are men in every class who seem to require some outlet for their superabundant animal life. Before the day of athletics, such men supplied the class bullies in fights between town and gown, and were busy at night in gate stealing and in other pranks now gone out of fashion. A number of them were dissipated men, and had to diversify...
...whole College is seething with excitement, and every outlet of every building is barricaded and guarded to prevent the fearful loss of life that must inevitably follow any collision between the adherents of the rival societies...
...were the custom of the genus poco to visit us at this late hour, if an unwary book-agent had looked in on me, I should have had an outlet for my spleen. A head would have gone, the world been minus one more plague, and the Crimson's dignity saved. But the sin of this be on the heads of my tormentors...
Till at last the only outlet...