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...Harvard that elysium which has no dawn and no setting, the government of the college in every sense pursues a wise course in requiring that they who enter the fields of pleasure should prove that they are highly qualified for entrance into the academic shades. The term of college bred must not be allowed to fall into disrepute even at the cost of closing our doors to several men who wish to be Harvard students without working to gain that distinction...
...Acta Columbia, in a very able editorial commenting on Mr. Irving's lecture in Sanders, thus speaks of the relation of college-bred men to the stage: "The stage, we think, is an institution worthy of the attention of college men, from the very fact that each year sees a number of them enter the dramatic lists. The more college men go upon the stage, the higher will dramatic representations rise, because study will bring the action nearer to its maximum perfection, conversely, also, the higher the art, the more college students will seek the profession...
President Seelye says in regard to "compulsory chapel" that "it has done incalculable good for Amherst, and its omission would prove an irreparable loss. A wise person will take advantage of this privilege of chapel worship and a well bred person will refram from all disturbances of the exercise in the slightest...
...second visit to a college like that at Wellesley is of far more interest than a first. Now accustomed to the well bred and lady like notice taken of us by the fair undergraduates, we can appreciate to better advantage our fair surroundings. After a highly interesting walk about the grounds we enter the main building and at once find ourselves in an interior that is luxurious to one who is accustomed to the hard benches and plain walls of Harvard. We enter the Browning room. There is an Amherst man over there. We stare at him. He becomes confused...
...possessed of many unlovely traits of character, but these traits are always possessed by those who are working in earnest and striving for enlightenment in education and morals. The chief intent of Harvard College was to provide ministers for the Colonists, but it was soon found that college-bred men were eminently fitted for high offices in both the government of the state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England...