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...support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined stand made by parents; and, what is more, by a thorough reform of the personal character of the students themselves. It is true that great and needless expenses are incurred by the more wealthy of the students...
...palace. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that the introduction of the great round-arched doorway gives a grateful touch...
...intercourse between the students and the "professionals" than is necessary to transact the business attending the match. In the game one nine is in the field, while the members of the other are at the bases, or waiting for their turn at the bat. The "professionals" are under the strictest discipline, so that their presence does not invite nor occasion dissipation in any form...
...very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness anything unbecoming the conduct of gentlement in the strictest sense...
Literary work demands the strictest abstinence, especially in the case of those engaged in journalistic work. Cold water is the only thing for a literary man to use. The most brilliant man he knew during his college course had become a drunkard, and was drowned in New York harbor...