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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other place than Harvard should be copied from." The use of "Varsity" as an abbreviation for "University," when the term is applied to crews and teams representative of the college and professional schools, is not by any means a Harvardism, but, as all college men know, it is the word used by the students of Oxford and Cambridge to designate the crews which are picked from the various colleges and represent the entire university. The word, however, is not used exclusively at Harvard, but is common to all American colleges, being often the means employed to distinguish the college crew...
...Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, in a recent letter speaks as follows: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country_that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that should have the means of doing and should do for young men in the forming period of their lives the best that can be done for them in four...
...Alumni Association of Boston had its seventeenth annual reunion and dinner in that city on Tuesday evening, President Franklin Carter being among the guests. The venerable Mark Hopkins sent his regrets at his inability to be present, and added: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country-that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that should have...
...nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing...
...culture. The main point is that the instruction given in the Realschule lacks a central point; hence the unsteadiness in its system of teaching. It embraces a collection of studies most of which cannot be pursued with the requisite thoroughness within the limits of the school. In a word, it has not been possible to find an equivalent for the classical languages as a centre of instruction; and therefore the university cannot deem it advisable for the state to cease to require a Gymnasium training for its future functionaries." There is no doubt about the sincerity of the faculty...