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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference," - a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference - to keep the more general term - is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard...
...Yale Faculty has forbidden the Nine to play outside of the limits of New Haven during term-time...
...expenditure, he would appreciate its full value. And if the Base-Ball Nine and the Athletic Association were allowed, when anything of interest was going on, to charge a fee for the use of seats, and if the seats were allowed to remain on the field during term time, - being taken down at the end of the college year, - our sporting interests would be far more prosperous, and subscription lists would cease to be the bane of college life...
Cornell has 184 new students this term, of whom sixteen are "ladies." The whole number of students in the University is 465, - 428 "gentlemen," and 37 "ladies." A notion of the influences which are brought to bear on the ladies in question may be gathered from a long article in the Review, in which a lecture, recently delivered at Ithaca by Mr. Theodore Tilton, is reviewed and praised in a style that seems to have been inspired by the lecturer himself...
...system are such as to make it only good as a temporary expedient, and such an expedient was absolutely demanded by the peculiar nature of that class. The system employed a year ago was generally recognized as a decided step towards open elections, in the best sense of the term, and as such was heartily welcomed by Harvard men. Yet this system contains much of the evil that existed in the old system of former classes, without catching much of the justice and tone of an open election. Any instance of its normal workings will show this...