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Although I heartily endorse the sentiments of your previous correspondents concerning English C, I wish to protest against the childish attitude of a certain part of the 12 o'clock section, which savors strongly of a schoolboy thoughtlessness, and is in no way becoming to members of the junior class at Harvard...
...Scraping of feet, rattling of papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University as a whole. Strangers visiting this course would receive a very low impression of Harvard and Harvard men in general. It is the place of every...
...Only new students or upper class 'freshmen' indulge in such childish practices as those of Thursday night any more. The rest of us are reserving our energy for a celebration of the coming Harvard victory...
...first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time-honored. Let us put this one aside,- at least the childish part of it, as we have done with the countless schoolboy pranks of the old college days. Above all, let it not be said that Harvard men are influenced by that most childish of motives, resistance to authority, which in all our other relations with the Faculty died a peaceful death...
...pains to conceal his sneer at the "budding humility" and "seemly modesty" which the Harvard man is so unexpectedly developing. Evidently anything of the sort is foreign to his own nature, or he would not have let his momentary anger find such hasty expression. There is something very childish in his obvious inability to appreciate the feeling which led to Captain Brewer's manly letter...