Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compose it, together with Williams and perhaps one or two other institutions, two separate and smaller leagues, is assuming a position of importance before the college world, and is becoming the chief topic of discussion at the colleges interested. For the purpose of exhibiting as truthfully as possible the real status of opinion on the question at the present time among the several colleges, we present below letters upon the subject from several colleges, and from the others we present the editorial opinions of the representative paper of each college...
...Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...hope it may have a wholesome effect. It is, as he says, an abomination and an outrage to allow young men to travel all over the country to play and witness matches, incurring expenses which in many cases their friends cannot afford, wasting time to the neglect of their real work, and exposed to various demoralizing influences. It is the clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely, under penalty of expulsion. To allow and encourage it is a fraud upon parents, the majority of whom send their sons to college to obtain an education in something more valuable...