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These have no instinct of loyalty, no ardor of enlistment, no sense of a common life, and contribute nothing to the common good, yet they think that their insignificant career should sway everything in college as in home and society. And so it is that the dangers in college life are not so much from the wickedness of boys whose doings are heralded far and wide, as from the evil that arises from many home habits, school sentiment, and overestimate of self. What we need then is the gospel of divine simplicity, a revival of genuine democracy, and renewed inspiration...
Professor Taylor's address was received with the greatest enthusiasm. All seemed to feel that the day had arrived when the monopoly of Greek and Latin sway was dying out in the old universities...
...coarse wit. Some time ago a number of juniors had the pleasure of seeing their nine win a game of ball through their skill at "rattling." Yesterday the sophomores copied those tactics. The freshmen tried to chime in, and now the spirit of interference seems to be in full sway...
...pity that greater care was not taken in laying the plank walks which in every other way are so satisfactory. The walks from Hollis to the eastern corner of Holworthy, and diagonally across the Delta, sway in some places with every step and bring the heavy or rapid step to a sudden stoppage by the noise which the boards make...
...talk at present about training the Yale crew of 1887 in these zero days when skating and tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water...