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...member of the Faculty to be to us He was a personal friend, a warm hearted and generous helper and councillor to almost every man in college for all these years. It was the fashion for every student to love and honor him. With him has passed away a certain spirit of familiarity and friendship between professors and students, for his retirement came at a time when the University was beginning to grow most rapidly and was losing somewhat the "Harvard spirit." Thus this article leads to "The Decadence of the Harvard Spirit; A Conversation" by Hugh McCulloch. This article...
...number of the Monthly contains an article entitled "Of the Decadence of the Harvard Spirit: A Conversation." The writer is keenly alive to certain radical evils which have crept into college manners within a few years. These intruders have made themselves so prominent as to excite serious apprehensions in the minds of those who, in the hurry of college life, look about them and note the changes which have taken place. To graduates especially who have been college bred to another spirit, the signs of the times have caused no little anxiety. Such a treatment as the Monthly gives...
That there has crept into our life here certain features which are distinctly not-Harvard, cannot be denied. There has come with the elective system a noticeable difference in the way of living and in the general influence of the University on the individual. Yet we hesitate to admit that there is any real decadence of the "Harvard spirit." It is not strange that the reaction from the old conservative way of thinking should at first go at little too far in the other direction. In later years this decade will probably mark an important epoch in the history...
future. While there are certain tendencies which make us fearful at times, they are, we believe, superficial, hardly more than signs of a change which is certainly going on. And yet this change does not mean a "decadence." The "Harvard spirit" is too much of a reality, is too deeply a part of the University to be lost. It may be modified to suit more advanced ideas, but that is all. We believe with "Jack," if only from an instinctive feeling, that our present position will prove to be the "outcome of a glorious past, the natural prelude...
...names of all photographs wanted were to be underlined and the order returned by a certain time. However any orders can be sent in now and will receive the same attention and be ready by class day. Any man who would like another list can get it at the studio...