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...seven distinct and definite courses, from among which matriculates will hereafter choose one. Each course is designed with reference to the student's subsequent career, and the courses have been arranged after a careful comparative study by the faculty of the combinations usually chosen, and those which seem to afford the best training for the respective professions...
...Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once more. The time for every man or society to stop doing wrong is now. - [New York Evening Post...
...notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician, the Governor of Massachusetts, in a newspaper interview, should indulge in bombastic threats against Harvard College - this, certainly, is a matter in which no Harvard man can afford to take an indifferent interest...
Joaquin Miller claims that he knows a professor at Harvard who writes slashing editorials, and he "reckons" that other universities also afford writers of force and culture for the press. As to writing plays, he thinks that every attorney's clerk, certainly every Harvard or Cambridge graduate, has at least a brace of plays. But no one will produce them. Few will read them. Yet, so far from being dull or worthless, they are often great. But they are fashioned after the Greek, or after Shakespeare, and out of date...
...abandoned. The great objection to Jarvis now is the very fact that two-thirds of the spectators are non-paying. It is, too, a very lamentable fact that very many students are among this crowd. It is to their disgrace. There may be a few who can't afford a quarter or a half-dollar, but at every game there are many outside who could well afford the price of admission, and it is much to their discredit that they choose to show such an example of meanness. No words can be too strong to denounce such conduct. The "mucker...