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...would not allow any temporary inconveniences to stand as obstacles in the path of improvement. Their unexpected defeat seemed to thoroughly disconcert them and a corresponding depression has followed their former confidence. No better lesson could be taught the freshmen than the one they received at Andover unless they persist in taking it the wrong way. The eleven is supposed to be only in partial trim during these preparatory games, so success or failure are one and the same so long as a steady improvement goes on. But this improvement does not seem to be going on as it should...
...class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will surely result in a diminution of the students' affection for their Alma Mater and respect for its faculty. The resolutions were eagerly signed by all the classes, less than half a dozen men having as yet refused to put down their names. The petition will...
There are still some instructors, fortunately few in number, who persist in keeping their sections over the hour. This is very unpleasant, not only for the students, who are thereby compelled to hurry to their next recitation, but it is also annoying to other instructors whose time is broken into by men coming in late. Five minutes is none too much time for men to go from one recitation room to another, especially if it be from Harvard to Sever or to the museum, or if the student has to go to his room between recitations...
...reading it is everybody's duty to be on time or stay away, and not to prove a public nuisance by coming into a room in the middle of the evening, and then deliberately climbing down to the seats farthest removed from the door, as some will persist in doing...
...question stated that Mr. Robinson had received overtures from Yale men to accept the position of gymnasium trainer at the institution that is gaining such an enviable reputation for itself through the Dennis Kearney tone of its journalistic representatives. We published the announcement on good authority, and still persist that Mr. Robinson was approached and was offered liberal inducements to resign his position here, which, for apparent reasons, he declined to do. But supposing for an instant that we had been mistaken, we doubt very much whether there was anything in our article that could justify the contemptible and childish...