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...interested, with the idea that if once fair treatment for the newspapers were secured, the newspapers would reciprocate. There is no doubt that they have had cause for complaint. At times they have been treated by the University or its members with that condescension which railroads were wont to assume toward the public not long ago; and they have turned to it for satisfaction by means of exaggerated stories. These are the days when publicity is the acknowledged course for railroads and big business; they are also the days when members of the University should realize that not only...
Under the new athletic regime at Princeton, which has for a director William W. Roper, the Tigers made a successful bid for more athletic honors than they are wont to secure. They won the championship in wrestling, beyond dispute. After carefully considering all the claimants to the baseball championship it would seem that Princeton is more deserving of this mythical honor than any other institution, with Cornell, Amherst and Williams following in order named. Princeton is awarded the title not because the Tigers won more games or lost less than any of their rivals, but because they did better...
...there existed more generally a truer and fuller conception of the real significance of a habit formed. "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so small scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for each fresh dereliction by saying, "I wont count this time." Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres, the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next...
President Lowell was then introduced. He deplored the fact that he would be unable to meet Freshmen personally as he had been wont to do in former years. He likened the life of a Freshman to that of a sea captain about to leave the harbor for a foreign port. Like the captain who guides his ship by the compass, so the new student must guide his acts by his conscience...
...some urgent inducement. There is everything to be gained by the Dean's plan, and nothing to be lost which any generous man would not lose eagerly. The suggestion that the dignity of the College will suffer is nonsense. That the Boston Herald should believe that the Med. Fac. wont keep its word is natural enough; but it will keep its word absolutely and unquestionably, and if there are undergraduates who do not know that it will, that is only because they don't know...