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...speculator is not much different from the boy who makes some bold dash for victory in his games. The close man who takes the outward things in earnest acts in a foolish manner. It is as if the children in the market place should take their artificial money for real and horde it away. You have a contempt for the boy who looses his temper at play; we should take an example from this in real life...
...meeting of the Graduate Club last evening, Professor Von Jagemann and Dr. Richards talked in an informal and thoroughly delightful manner of the customs of German universities, as they appeal to American interest. There is no comparison possible between German universities and American colleges. The German boy gains his training in nine years solid work in the gymnasium, as it is called. When he enters a university he leaves general education behind and devotes himself to one particular object...
...Puritan time, the boy, the girl, the mother and the father, came to prayer each night as they had done in the morning. Is it not clear that if we could make a town, a state, a nation begin each day in this way and with the purpose to glorify God, that it could achieve impossibilities...
...distorted conception of life among college men, it hardly seems due to the glorification of athletics. It is due to the immaturity and inexperience of the average student; but whether that immaturity itself is at all due to the glorification of athletics from the time of the "boy in kilts" to that of the man in college is another question, though it hardly seems very important. Again the question whether athletic men after graduation are slower than others in settling down to the serious work of life is an open one. It is true that loyalty and the pressing call...
...have passed through the stage of secrecy in societies, and, with one exception, have given up that characteristic to them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring...