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...greater thought or care about what or how much we read. Some of us are bound to rank and marks, others to nothing, but how few of us have any definite method, beside cramming through a cunningly arranged series of examinations, by which to arrive as a higher intellectual sphere. Of course it only would be labor lost, either to argue with the "grind" or to seek to urge proper reading on many others, but the reading men are laying the best foundation and it is at college, if anywhere, that we must learn to accustom ourselves to books...
...which the divines of England are launching their stores of old saws, proverbs and "antediluvian nonsense," as Dr. Collier sensibly calls it, all opposition ought and eventually will cease. A letter from one of the leading ministers of England states that "women are inferior to men and consequently their sphere is different," with other statements of the same sort which are by no means arguments that women ought not to receive the same privileges for a certain amount of study as men. This opposition to the education of women is worthy of more early times, and certainly reflects little credit...
...often said that Oxford is the more famous of the two universities for movements and Cambridge for men, but the fact is that in most of the great movements for liberalizing the universities and extending their sphere of usefulness Cambridge has taken the lead and Oxford has reluctantly followed. The so-called "University Extension" movement is one conspicuous instance, and another was afforded by the debate in Congregation at Oxford on the proposal to open some of the university examinations to women. At Cambridge the women students have now for some few years enjoyed this privilege to the full...
...science. Mr. E. L. Conandt, '84, in approving the action of the faculty showed how the river and Jarvis field, which should be for the use of all, had been given up to a few men, and said that athletics had extended beyond their proper sphere and needed due oversight and regulation. The debate of the regular disputants was closed by Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, who argued that the faculty had not right to interfere simply because football or base-ball were played somewhat differently from the time when they (the faculty) were in college. Improvements had taken place...
...have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct reverse - a withdrawal from ordinary human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed a liberal education save a narrow selfishness and lack of patriotism, enthusiasm, individuality, and everything positive and definite, we had better shut...