Word: young
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their effor's for reform. Within them no objection will be made by this Committee to any arrangement entered into by the students, provided these arrangements avoid interference on the part of participants and students at large with that study which is the purpose and reason for which young men come to college...
...shows that he received a very favorable impression of the college. He says that the average attendance at chapel during his stay was about three hundred, and that over fifty men visited him at Wadsworth House. He concludes that "this is pre-eminently a religious age, and especially thoughtful young men are thinking on the problems of religious life...
...these games is enormous. The gambling spirit becomes so strong and so widespread that he is a rare undergraduate who believes, and lives up to the belief, that obtaining money from another without rendering an equivalent, is but a form of robbery. The cultivation of this spirit among the young men who should occupy places of leadership in the business and professional world is not to be considered lightly...
...interests and practices which had nothing whatever to recommend them. It is admitted that colleges which devote the most attention to athletics are the most free from hazing, rushing, and other customs which were universal before the introduction of athletics. There is a superabundance of energy in the average young man which demands an outlet. The energy which might otherwise be wasted is concentrated on intercollegiate sports, and it is safe to say that far more good than harm is the result. Until some better outlet is suggested, the best thing the colleges can do is not to abolish...
...Delta Upsilon held its seventh annual banquet at Young's hotel, Wednesday evening, with some sixty members present. Among the officers elected at the business meeting for the ensuing year were R. S. Beckford, Harvard, '85, secretary treasurer, and C. A. Bunker, '89, member of the executive committee. The society is in a very flourishing condition. Ten members were initiated into the Harvard chapter last Tuesday, and the meeting of the fraternity for 1891 will be held here...