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...study of Political Science which appeared in the Magenta of March 12. For some time past the Post has been urging upon our colleges the necessity of devoting more attention to this subject; and it expresses its approval of our views upon the matter. It imagines, however, from some careless expressions of ours, that the study of Political Economy is confounded with that of the Constitution at Harvard, as it appears to be at some other colleges; and that both are studied in the most abstract manner. As our former article appears to have been misunderstood in so high...
...becomes more evident every year that success at the bat and oar is only to be attained by persevering and enthusiastic labor. Let no petty or local dispute interfere where the honor of our University is at stake. The careless and cynic spirit should be frowned down; and every one should seek to contribute, in the way most suited to his abilities, to the honor and eminence of Harvard. Let those who are blessed with a good biceps grasp the bat or the oar; let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve...
...ONCE a careless man went to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he thought was a keg of black sand. He sat near it drinking wine until the candle burned low. Nearer and nearer it got to the black sand; nearer and nearer, until the blaze reached the black sand; and it was sand, - nothing happened...
...that our remembrance of the scenes in the Massasoit House on the night after the last regatta pictures anything but a condition of "communion and fellowship" between some of the principal contestants. And is that ambition a laudable one, which allows a Princeton or a Harvard man to be careless of distinction in the sight of his Alma Mater alone, but would spur him on, with the pleasing hope of reading in the various journals of the country, that Smith of Princeton or Harvard took a Greek prize at the intercollegiate contest? We think not, decidedly...
...Howard, than, instead of being harassed by dire visions of a vacation passed in making up conditions, we are crushed beneath the no less awful question what to do with it. In the coming fall, the oft-repeated query, "Did you enjoy your vacation?" will be answered by a careless, "Yes," under which lurks an uneasy feeling that a summer to which we have long looked forward has slipped away and left but little behind it. For we no sooner have our time than we are possessed with an eager desire to kill it; and our joy, when released from...