Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...organization of another political club at Harvard is a sign of the growing interest which the college feels in the outside work. The university is no longer becoming a cloister where the pleasures and duties of the outside world are left behind when the young student takes upon himself the vows of learning. Learning to be worth much should be tempered with experience, and experience comes only through the outside world. The experience which is to make Harvard men good citizens is that which the members of the political clubs seek to attain. An active interest in the affairs...
...Edward Everett Hale and occupies the place of honor. In his usual perspicuous and forcible manner, Dr. Hale dwells upon the work which the Union is accomplishing, and lays stress upon the great help that a college man gets when he breaks the seclusion of the cloister - if his every-day college life may be so dignified - and enters into a free and natural relation with all sorts and conditions of men. "The business of university men," says Dr. Hale, "is to carry the training which the university has given them in the infinite realities and in intellectual methods...