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...writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, apparently by way of apologizing for Irving's maturity of aspect in the character, sets forth the fact that "Romeo's age is nowhere exactly defined. He is called 'young Romeo,' and no more." But surely that would be enough, even if there were no other indications in the text of Romeo's youthfulness, and there are several. The whole tragedy, indeed, may be described, and even explained, as a story of youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that...
ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT AND FACULTY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GREETING: Gentlemen - There has been great changes in the Hebrew and Greek writers of Antiquity, by the Hebrew and Greek writers of this Modern Age of literature and science. My great experience in the classic Shades of Learning, forces me to challenge the educated world to prove any Heaven without life, reason, logic, order, harmony, genuine faith, belief in harmony with the organic and natural laws which govern, regulate and harmonize mankind in the present tense, heaven possessed in the human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend...
...system of prizes, of special rewards for scholarship is an inheritance from those same schoolboy college days and schoolboy views of which the Nation's correspondent speaks with such just disparagement. Such devices may have been necessary in the days when boys came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have...
...popular reform in the regulations. Therefore we see no reasons why a like liberty should not be extended to juniors. All the arguments that apply in favor of granting it to seniors must apply equally well in favor of extending it to juniors. Statistics show that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average age of a Harvard student, upon entering his junior year, is twenty-one years. Surely no one will argue that what is permitted to a mature youth of twenty-two must be denied to a tender stripling of twenty...
...students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...