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Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...forerunner of the further prosperity of Princeton's track athletics. Not for a long time has there been so much interest shown in this branch of athletics nor such extensive plans made by the management. The prominent candidates have been working faithfully in the gymnasium and have made good progress under Captain Garret and Mr. Goldie, as shown by the result at Boston. In addition to this, by reason of the host of good material in the freshman class, Princeton should raise considerably the standard and quality of her track athletics, which hitherto played so small a part...
...those means would allow. In all this there has had to be a ruling sense of proportion, a weighing of the needs of one department against those of another with the result that though some departments have been advanced more than others, there has been at least a steady progress in all. To tell of what President Eliot has done for the University not only in the actual acquisition of resources both financial and educational during his administration, but in his exemplification of what the university president is to be for at least a long time to come, would...
These conferences show clearly the vigorous policy of the management. Those in charge are not satisfied with the expansion of quarters already secured; with the progress already made in providing courses, and in strengthening the corps of instruction. The progress in this direction has been remarkable ever since Professors Shaler and Hollis, and Mr. Chamberlain have been in charge of affairs. But their purpose is, not to trust solely to their own judgment, but to call on practical men to point out practical methods of improvement and enlargement...
Beyond the arrangement of the course of lectures to be given this spring little of the work which has been in progress since last fall has been announced. Considerable investigation of the college records has, however, been carried on with a view to determining the men to whom memorials are to be erected and the different historic places to be marked. The results of this work will probably be made known early in the spring...