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...first place, the authority of the government must be obtained, and this the government can either give or refuse. Besides, the University alone can confer the degrees indispensable to a man who intends opening a school. There is yet more. The competition of the state destroys private enterprise. The state has at its disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true...
...autograph-book of the Class of '74 is being prepared, and members of the Class will confer a favor by calling at No. 39 Grays, between the hours of 2 and 3 P. M., and leaving their autographs. The book is to be neatly gotten up. On one cover is to be the stamp of the University, and in one corner, "Harvard '74." On the title-page will be written, "Autographs of the Class...
...requisite qualifications and degrees, can open a school. But it is here that we see the monopoly that the state has acquired; for, in the first instance, it alone can authorize the opening of a school, and secondly, it is the University alone that has the right to confer degrees and certificates; it is before it that all examinations must take place...
...persons having in their possession books belonging to the Porcellian Library will confer a great favor by leaving them at No. 61 Thayer...
...these results could be reached as well, or even better; for it would then serve as an index, or table of contents, to the work to be done, and some recitations that now are nearly useless because their connection with the subject as a whole is not realized, would confer other blessings than those of heavenly sleep. Such a method would, besides, prevent some serious evils belonging to the present...