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...appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other...
...stoop to do vile things because others do. They are simply like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the current, who do not own their own souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve to the problems of life, fatal to all true enthusiasm. The desire of the cultured is often to be reflective spectators rather than ardent participators. In launching...
That the gymnasium is in many ways the best equipped of any college gymnasium in this country, may be true enough, but like the best of everything, there is plenty of room for improvement. Harvard is not a whit behind the age in this respect. The shower-baths, which are of greater necessity and utility than any other thing connected with the gymnasium, are either very badly managed or else there is a flaw in the construction of the pipes bringing in the hot and cold water supply. Every day it takes ten or fifteen minutes to regulate the temperature...
...liberal education, such a one as can be completed by the age of twenty-two, should include two things, namely, mental training and positive knowledge. In this, I think, almost all men are agreed; but as to the proportions of the two and as to their compatibility, men's opinions vary widely. Of one thing, however, we may be sure. If either element of education be neglected in the undergraduate course, it is unlikely that the deficiency will ever be made good. The years immediately following graduation are devoted, in the vast majority of instances, to learning a profession...
...university. Our American boy make up his mind that he must do hard and faithful work in school from his sixteenth to his eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome out-of-door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same earnestness about...