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...sour and cross as she grows old. She is the same kind, generous mother she always was, only more so, and to the extent of her ability and her purse, she does all she can for her boys. We also wish to certify, hereby, that these boys are well bred and polite, and what is the best additional quality, they are afraid of no one. If family jars ever occur, or if Johnny does something the older boys would not have done, we all know the old adage about the best regulated families. Mother Harvard is the best of women...
...course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates and friends have urged it to change its ways and condescend to teach its graduates how to address, in a well-bred yet forcible way, a primary or a town meeting. The only instruction to-day in oratory in that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office of an instructor on a salary less than that paid to an ordinary...
...pity if nothing more should come of them than a general confession of their justness, and a vague appeal to wealthy parents to cut down their sons' allowances. If we depend much or mainly on an example of simple living on the part of those who have been bred in luxury, we shall be disappointed. Our practical efforts will lie in the direction of making economy respectable and of reducing the temptation to spend, by which the ordinary student's expenses are needlessly aggravated...
...come over to the more sane idea that if we are ever to influence politics, we must learn as soon as possible to study political questions. There is no better way to make our politicians scholars, than to make our scholars into politicians; if the country needs more college-bred men in politics, she can best get them by rousing the interest of undergraduates...
...liberal education is just as necessary for success as in any other form of trade and few forms of trade necessitate such a multiplicity of considerations. Many things may be said about a college education and many strange things are said, but the fact remains that a college bred man is by his education better fitted for success, irrespective of the business he enters. Let it be the lowest or the highest means of livelihood, and in each case the work to be done will be done better by an educated than by an uneducated man. For this very reason...