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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powers if he were treated like a reasonable being and given the causes that brought about these results. In no other college is there such a marked line of red tape between students and instructors as at Harvard. Some colleges have class officers, consisting of members of the faculty whose duty it is to arrange all matters between the two portions of the college community. But, here, everything is so bound about by red tape, and all the minor workings of the governing board are so carefully concealed, that the students are apt to come to the conclusion that...
...great Eastern colleges. There never was a greater mistake. The fact is, there is far too little. The college base-ball, boating and foot-ball which make so much talk in the newspapers are shared in really by about two or three dozen young men in each college, whose expenses are paid by their fellows. All the 'athletic sport' that the great majority of the students get consists in the payment of money to the 'college eight,' or 'college nine,' as the case may be, though the introduction of bicycling and the establishment of gymnasiums have of late undoubtedly tended...
...been such as to warrant its supporters in believing that it will play if not a successful at least a creditable game against Yale. This fact and the steady and faithful work of the players should certainly insure a full attendance and the hearty support of their classmates, for whose credit and honor, be it remembered, the team will compete. So let every man in the class do his share towards this end by giving to the team the encouragement of his presence and enthusiasm...
...topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction of all. In this way the interest of all was kept up, and there was nobody in the room whose thoughts seemed to wander from the matter in hand...
...time of year when Boston and its suburbs enjoys, or suffers, a general vacation. Few, therefore, of the lovers and pilgrims of art are aware even of its existence. A trip, made even in a Cambridge horse-car, will be well rewarded by a view of the window through whose mellow tints the sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows...