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...needed to set our reasoning aright. Facts are not everything, but they are a great deal, and without them a student has no material with which to do his mental building. It is to the credit of Harvard that she was first among the universities to recognize this double aspect of economical study, and to provide for both. Professor Ashley said his advice to a student would be to acquire the outlines of economical theory as it is today, and to study the growth of that theory from Adam Smith to the present time. Then if he had a special...
...gymnasium is just beginning to take on an aspect of activity. None of the teams are as yet at work, except the new candidates for the 'varsity crew and the candidates for the freshman crew, but the floor is crowded every afternoon from four until nearly six o'clock...
Owing to our Renaissance sympathies, we commonly think of the early Germans only as barbarians and destroyers. The Germans, however, cannot have had this aspect to themselves. They rightly felt that their energies and powers were not altogether barbarous. We have seen how the infusion of their blood and their culture had a vivifying effect on those portions of the Roman Empire which came later to be the Romance nations. Modern life and modern literature are alike full of traces of the Germans, hence it is highly interesting to see how they developed at home, and unmixed with Latin blood...
...smallness and realizes that a certain amount of work is planned for him to do, then he ceases to be a mere imitation and becomes a man, an active force in the life of the world. If this conception of manliness and duty were universal, the whole aspect of life would be different. Every man, thus, is a messenger...
...able to watch the eleven in its secret practice or to know definitely from time to time how much improvement it has made. It is sufficient to say that those who have watched and worked with the eleven have seen this improvement and that it gives a very different aspect to our prospects. We cannot foretell victory or defeat; but we can say that a better eleven, in its individual and in its team work, has seldom before represented Harvard at a Yale game; and we can with reason expect a satisfactory result tomorrow...