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With these circumstances it would be a mistake, especially at the present crisis in baseball matters, to make the class nines play on diamonds that pervert ordinary baseball conditions, and make it doubly hard to acquire confidence and skill. The lease which the University has on Norton's expires this year, and will not be renewed; it may, in consequence, be objected that any money spent on the field would do no good next year. But next year or no next year, there is this year, and a large sum of money could be spent this year on baseball without...
This one rule, however, regarding admittance to its meetings, seems to us to pervert the avowed purposes of the H. A. A. The Association desires to increase the number of students who take an interest and part in manly sports. Yet this rule plainly restricts such an increase. Some students cannot afford, even though it admits them to all the games in their course, to pay the five dollars for membership. But the principle in the matter is one of forcing-forcing, we say, men who have a sincere interest in athletics to take this step...
...have told all sorts of imaginary stories of adventure on the plains, and along the rivers of our continent, and it would have been none of our business; he might have lectured himself into fame and fortune without a word of protest from us. But when he began to pervert the history and distort the geography of our continent to gratify his ignorant conceits and base ambitions, it began to come within our range; and when he and his agents attempted to corrupt the school text-book literature of the day, and tried to induce us to falsify our publications...
...useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their various relations, a grammar which is dependent upon those relations is obviously impossible...
About 1834, some excitement was caused by a charge of sectarianism in the services, which it was alleged might pervert the minds of the students, but it soon died...