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...think it a wretched game," President Eliot is made to say, "but as an object of ambition for the youth to go to college really it is a little weak. There are only nine men who can play the game, and there are 950 men in the college, and out of the nine there are only two desirable positions, I understand-that of pitcher and catcher-so that there is but little chance for the youth to gratify his ambition. I call it one of the worst games, although I know it is called the American national game...
...title page candidly informs us that the contents are designed "for the use of the collegiate youth," a design which we sincerely hope was realized in fact. In the first place, we learn that the academic year was divided into four terms, instead of three, as is generally the custom in this country. College opened on the tenth of October and closed for the year on Monday next after the seventh of July, at which time something like our present Commencement exercises took place...
...cannot, however, forbear inclining to adopt the opinion in regard to it expressed by the New York Times. It is easy to brand opposition to so radical a reform as the extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit that the favorite modern principle of the division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual...
...these resolutions," he continues concerning the three-mile rule, "this one looks like an attempt against inter-collegiate contests. Such a blow would weaken the whole college system of physical education. It is the inter-collegiate contest that is the incentive which makes discipline and training endurable to the youth who hates restraint and loves his freedom...
...Neither does it seem to me that the evils growing out of these sports have assumed such proportions as to call for faculty interference in the way proposed. I cannot but believe that it will be an unfortunate blow for the physical and essentially manly development of our educated youth if these rules are generally adopted. The management of athletic sports might wisely be left to the students. They may make mistakes, but they also learn to remedy them, and thus learn wisdom at the same time. Better mistakes with wisdom learned than to remove the chances of mistake...