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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard is not only a great centre of polite learning, it is also a powerful factor in the civil life of the nation. Students from all quarters of the country throng its halls. Many of these youth will yet occupy public positions and control the political action of their States. The lessons which they will learn in Cambridge and Boston will never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing...
...president of Vassar College said, not long since, that "colleges for men seem to be places where they can kick off a great deal of superfluous energy and experience of youth, where they can be trained to be fit for the society of young women, and while they are undergoing this curriculum is it not just as well that the young women should remain at Smith and Vassar...
...deliverance of our colleges from the pranks which formerly broke the slumber of tutors and proctors must be ascribed in part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open...
...magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
...York Times fulminates on the subject as follows: "The total absence of any sense of humor among the students of American colleges is a very curious phenomenon. From the time that the American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth...