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When opportunity is offered, it must not be thrown away. Given leisure, what shall be done with it? Money is not valuable in itself; the necessity of earning a living is a great safeguard. It is easy to lose one's opportunity through dissipation. Far better is it to spend one's time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives...
...their honor. The police and detective system in our colleges is altogether too prominent. The manhood of the students is not sufficiently recognized. We believe that this pernicious system fosters dishonesty, and that if it did not exist the moral sentiment of the college would be a stronger safeguard against the contemptible measures of a few unprincipled fellows-they do not deserve the name of men or students-than the most careful surveillance of an army of proctors. If a man is trusted he is ashamed to forfeit the confidence reposed in him; but if he is suspected and watched...
...frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can posses against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarian could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin Review furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the Review, "the president of a neight, the guest...
...spirited game between gentleman. And, in our opinion, there will be no inter-collegiate foot-ball three or four years hence unless referees are secured who have the pluck and disposition to enforce the rules against players who are willing to break them. Undoubtedly it would be a safeguard to have the game refereed by an alumnus, who may be supposed to be removed from sympathy with the present mode of play. We doubt, though the advisability of changing rule 19 so that the referee can disqualify a player without a warning. Frequently, without meaning any harm, a player...
...yard needs better lighting ; the front of the buildings is not so exposed to burglars, as there are constant passers by, but the sides of the buildings that do not face on the yard or the streets need to be better lighted or better watched. Of course the best safeguard would be the long-needed yard policeman, who, when he comes into existence, is to keep the muckers out of the yard, and rid us of all the annoyance and discomforts attendant upon the present use of the college yard as the play-ground of Cambridge youths...