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...game has successfully passed the unnecessary and undeserving crisis to which it has been unnaturally forced by the misrepresentations due partly to the other unasignable causes. The game demands many manly qualities, teaches self possession, courage and manliness; and so, like the great English University boat races, may it prosper...
...interest between the schools and the colleges is absolute. The hard drudgery should not belong entirely to the school, and the inspiration to the college. There is no demarkation, with one spirit of education on the one side and another spirit of education on the other. The colleges cannot prosper unless the schools also prosper. The colleges of New England do not keep pace with the growth of the population. Not only is the growth of the colleges alarmingly small, but the progress of the preparatory schools is equally unsatisfactory. President Eliot believed that it is a relaxation...
This changes the form of the society in a vital respect and calls for careful consideration on the part of every man who wishes to see the society prosper...
...tariff of 1860 is the most complete experiment which the protectionists have made, and it has given a stimulus to native industry such as no other tariff has ever done. It cannot be denied that the country has prospered under it, but it is another thing to assert that there would not have been the same prosperity without it. Protectionists tell us that countries like Ireland, Turkey and Portugal, have failed to prosper on account of free trade, but they neglect to speak of the real causes which have operated to bring about this unfortunate state of affairs. The tariff...
...relate, his suit did not prosper, and after a few days he again writes to his friend, wondering whether the lady is "coy and reserved" in order to make him more in love, or whether she is offended at the "Spanish stateliness" of his demeanor. He becomes greatly moved over his wretchedness. However, one cannot help doubting the real strength of such affection, when the last paragraph of the letter is reached. He concludes a passionate profession of love for Miss Blair, and then adds: "A letter from my signora at Siena, written with all the warmth of Italian affection...