Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton men say that they could put a very strong nine in the field next spring if they can succeed in finding a good catcher. Brownlee, '89, who caught part of the season last year, is reported to have improved greatly and will probably catch again this year...
...CREW BOOK. Unless more men sign so as to swell the list at Leavitt & Pierce's, to one hundred names, the book cannot be gotten out according to first intentions and will virtually be a failure. Let no man say he will take a copy when they are out: what are wanted are names, so that the book may come out before the Fourth of July...
...much better than has been generally believed. Salary must, however, be understood in the sense of income, and must, for purposes of comparison, include the various lecture fees, examination fees, both for the civil examinations and doctor examinations, the allowance for rent, and occasional immunity from various taxes, to say nothing of the various travelling stipendia, of the definite prospect of pension, and of the permanency of tenure...
During the harrowing scenes of the accident near Springfield last week one of the Harvard men was heard to say, "By jingo! This will furnish subjects for daily themes for the next six months...
...mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority...