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Professor Richard's paper on the advantages of college athletics furnishes nothing that is very new on the subject. It is mostly a collection of the old ideas presented in an attractive form by one who has had a large personal experience at Yale. He shows much interest in the matter and this is but natural as his son is a prominent member of the football eleven. In this paper he speaks only of the advantages gained, and on this side he has almost all the prominent educators to back him. Indeed in one place he quotes a long passage...
This and his argument that exercise to be most beneficial should be such as will interest the mind, are the newest and freshest, adding something to the long list already upholding the benefits of the system of college exercise. In a second paper he proposes to speak of the evils, which he thinks exaggerated, attending athletics in their present condition and of the means by which these evils may be remedied in the future. The appearance of this paper is awaited with some eagerness to see what view a prominent Yale professor takes on this subject which is at present...
Another attempt is being made by some Yale men to start an illustrated paper. It is to be hoped that it will result more favorably than the last. [News...
Coming east the papers grow more mature in style and management, indicating a corresponding change in the men. Wrongs felt are written of in a reasonable way; the why and wherefore explained with no spasmodic outburst of feeling, too sure to defeat its own end. Originality is introduced. Poetry is more frequent, though not always of the best. The humorous column comes direct from the editors' pen, and is not so frequently clipped. Illustrations appear, more taste displayed, papers regular and with dispatch, showing that they are edited for a purpose, to express opinions and convey news, and not simply...
Since the first article on the subject of the Greek question was printed in this paper, numerous reviews of Prof. White's pamphlet have appeared in different journals throughout the country. The Popular Science Monthly, the most prominent organ of the opponents of classical culture, has devoted a very large proportion of its space to the subject, treating it however from a purely practical standpoint. These articles, of course, present the case from the most extreme "scientific" point of view and their effect is diminished by the fact that their writers have in most cases allowed their zeal...