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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever said of the broken down book-worm whose back is bent, shoulders rounded and eyes ruined. At Harvard College the gymnasium is one of the best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard of an accident...
Thirdly, if the professor cannot remain during the examination, let him coach a proctor on the questions of the paper; or else let us have a proctor whose specialty lies in the subject of the paper. Not that his function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that...
...Nation says of Life: "It is, by evolution, an offspring of the Harvard Lampoon, whose most genuine designer, Mr. F. G. Atwood, is here represented by a cartoon and by some clever initial letters and head-pieces. The drawings and the fun are much above the average of the Lampoon, and would be respectable anywhere. Is there adequate support for a decorous and monochromatic Puck...
...conclusion of Mr. Orne's remarks President Eliot was introduced. He said he came there as a representative of the great university the prosperity of which was due in no small degree to the labors of him whose memory those present had met to commemorate. Dr. Walker was a man who impressed one at a glance; his physique was grand and his constitution strong and vigorous. His power over young men was very marked, and many are now living in the prime of life who look back to some discourse or conversation of Dr. Walker's as a turning point...
...economical of everything but the lives of its students: we don't. But let us put the matter on a strictly financial basis. Suppose Weld takes fire and burns to the ground. Unless the fire began on the roof, the admirably constructed chimneys in the centre of the building (whose draught might profitably be imitated by other chimneys in the College Yard) would cut off the inhabitants from all escape, and a loss of forty or fifty lives would be the certain result. Now let us take the smaller number, and let us suppose that, on the average, they...