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...existence to se so much of this foolishness of calling a foot ball kicker a hereo only because he can kick a foot ball good. It must be discouraging to many worthy students to look at papers and see nothing about a college except about a lot of overgrown boys mauling each other and called heroes I thought a hereo was one that did some thing unselfish for his fellow man. A ADMIRER OF THE GRIND
...common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press. Such publicity, according to English ideas, smacks too strongly of professionalism, or at least lays undue...
Beside the roads one often comes upon old houses, some shaded by trees and overgrown with vines, and others standing grim and bare. There are also old mansions surrounded by large lawns and gardens...
...Ancient Cities of Central America." Mr. Gordon described his trip to Honduras and his visit to the old cities of the interior, whose remarkable ruins give some idea of the civilization which flourished there ages before the coming of Europeans to America. These cities, once so magnificent, are now overgrown by forests, inhabited only by wild animals, and many of them seldom visited by man. Mr. Gordon also told several anecdotes illustrative of the character and customs of the present inhabitants of Honduras...
...that she has no real claim to the title of university. Her present functions are "to furnish a liberal education as complete as possible," and to prepare students to enter upon professional careers." Of these Mr. Bowditch thinks the former absorbs too much attention. He suggests that "the somewhat overgrown academic department should be divided into two distinct departments" the "academic" and the "philosophical." The philosophical department would correspond to some extent to the present graduate department, while the academic course would be shortened to three years. This arrangement he believes would attract more students and induce many...