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...flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion of the manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university
...aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever-narrowing field of higher enjoyment and to lead us into the sanctuaries of our literature. Is it then asking too much if we request that Mr. James Russell Lowell, an emeritus professor of Harvard, make his influence felt among us? We are well aware that his time...
...consistent with the general tendencies now at work in Harvard College. The old hard and fast lines between the different classes, and between the professors and the students, have been eliminated. Compulsory chapel has been abolished, hazing has disappeared, and the elective system has done much to elevate and broaden our college life. A university club would be a valuable auxiliary in this movement. It would fill a place which no other college society can fill, since the object of other societies is to promote intercourse only between one class of students. A university club would embrace all classes...
That the closeness of college requirements broaden a man's views and prevents stagnation is also a new idea. It never yet had that effect in any college that ever existed; and, in the case of Yale, it has not broadened its view of the world, but only aggravated esteem of self. In this "closeness" we can indeed trace the origin of "Yale enthusiasm" which shows itself in bullying smaller colleges and in ungentlemanly annoyance. No one objects to this self-complacent near-sightedness of Yale except perhaps some of her progressive alumni. Certainly Harvard men should not, for they...
...student in the hopes that he may learn by the experience of older men, and that what they say to him, may be of some advantage in after life. A solitary lecture by a well known speaker, who is master of his subject, will tend more to broaden the student's intellect, than if he remains at home pouring over some book which might as well be read at any other time. Lectures are now recognized by all students as of paramount importance; the series now being given at Harvard by eminent men on the various professions proves that...