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...services of the staff will be at the disposal of the American institutions, scholars, and students, and particular emphasis will be laid on the effort to bring American men of science and research into convenient contact with German universities, bureaus, archives, museums, libraries, laboratories and hospitals...
From comparative statistics of the Philadelphia Bulletin, it appears that whereas at Harvard the ratio of instructors to students is as one to seven, in the average of colleges throughout the country, it is as one to ten. Such as showing would suggest that personal contact between Faculty and student body is freer and more instructive here than elsewhere. Yet so many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case...
...necessarily see the College from the undergraduate viewpoint, without being able to get a clear perspective of Harvard in its entirety. Those men who are going to distant cities have a peculiarly favorable opportunity to broaden their own views of the real significance and place of the University by contact with those graduates who have proved themselves the most loyal to Harvard, while at the same time bringing before the graduates the views and problems of the undergraduates and evincing a keen interest in this graduate movement. It is in this way that undergraduates can make of themselves the true...
...that social, service work requires administrative work and forces a man to develop the power to control those with whom he comes in contact, no better practical training for later life...
...mark of the true gentleman--and as manners make the man, this greatly emphasized the respect and growing reverence in which he was held as time went on. The gentleness and kindly courtesy of his nature won for him the tender regard and affection of all who came in contact with him, and I never heard of the defeated suitor, or the disappointed advocate, or of anybody else who cherished any ill-feeling against him. The dignity of the Court has been well sustained by Chief Justice Fuller, and he died beloved and regretted by his colleagues, by the profession...