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...soothe the savage breast," but we are forced to say that either before or after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect...
...enthusiasm of the freshmen over the victory of their nine found vent in a display of fireworks and a bonfire Saturday evening...
...deliverance of our colleges from the pranks which formerly broke the slumber of tutors and proctors must be ascribed in part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open...
...days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing but their studies to take their time. Moreover, it gives vent, or rather direction, to that superabundance of animal spirits for which college students are noted, and which, in days before athletics became so prominent, gave much trouble to the instructors with injurious efforts to the whole college. Formerly it was displayed in 'town-and-gown' rows, rushing, and hazing...
...Yale News gives vent to its exultation over the result in a gorgeous supplement, after the style of a theatre poster, printed in pale blue, containing the names of the Yale team and her records for the year...