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...Lanman dwelt especially on the moral effect of athletics. He would fear for the future of a listless boy; but if one had some object to work for - such as was furnished by boating, baseball and foot-ball - it would prove the best possible safeguard against drunkenness and the kindred evils which beset a college life...
...best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard of an accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect to rational athletic training. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...real question raised by the privilege of voluntary attendance, as it concerns the lowest scholars, does not relate to loss or gain in scholarship, but simply to the best means of securing a certain degree of routine, as a safeguard against the distractions and temptations which a great university necessarily presents. In short, if I may use the term without any invidious suggestion, the real question as regards them is a question of police regulation which can be provided for in more ways than...
...duty to make it so, or at any rate to prevent it from slipping into absolute obscurity. And I have very little respect for a man who has not a real and ardent love for the name he bears. Our Harvard pride, like our family pride, is a real safeguard. The name of our dear old college has kept many of her children from disgrace. But family pride often betrays men into the most arrant absurdities. And I am not sure that Harvard pride is not at this moment tending to put a great many Harvard men in a position...