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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...jump of 11 ft. 1 1/2 in. won the standing long jump; there was no jumping at Wesleyan. The games appear to have passed off very pleasantly; and the Record characteristically calls attention to the fact that reporters for the New York Herald and the Sun were present...
...adapted for any one profession or science in the organism of intellectual society; and therefore has not that enthusiasm - always more or less narrow-minded - for any subject, which is the result of exclusive attention and concentrated desire to excel. Our elective and lecture systems, our evening readings, present so many branches of study in such varied and attractive forms, that we are tempted to sip the sweets of various flowers, and leave any of them the moment when the taste becomes less pleasant or the appetite is cloyed. Hence this prevailing superficialness; the vast majority of students will choose...
...this a contradiction? Truly, so far as our present indifference involves laziness, or represses independent thought, it is reprehensible. But these faults conquered, - and experience shows that, as soon as our students go into actual special study, this is the case, - our methods of thought and study are precisely right for an academic course. Superficiality in one study becomes general culture when extended to all, general culture gives the only sound data for induction, generalization, abstraction, - the highest processes of thought. The object of a college is not that of a machine-shop; it does not fit a man directly...
...question. But we take advantage of the opportunity to propose once more the establishment of a general club, similar to the unions of Oxford and Cambridge, about which our readers will find full particulars in the back numbers of the Crimson. There can be no better time than the present for the establishment of such an institution, when there are so few prominent politicians of ability, honesty, and eloquence...
...opinions of the College. If we demanded reports with some degree of frequency and regularity, asking explanations whenever they are necessary, and were not afraid to speak above a whisper at a meeting, our officers would have opportunities to learn our wishes, and we should be free from the present system of confusion, under which, for instance, too often not even the treasurer of a society knows whether it is bankrupt...