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...Varied Outlooks. The first draws its theme from Mr. Wister's remarks, and then goes on to discuss the college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place to "broaden one's mind" but not through ineffectual pecking at all sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where we should learn to enjoy work; and that will come through arousing real interest in some particular subject whether it be related...
...very considerable number of students in the vicinity of Cambridge during the holidays. To all such men we heartily commend the invitation of President and Mrs. Eliot to the Christmas Eve reception in Phillips Brooks House. One often feels in our academic life the almost total lack of personal contact and fellowship with the older men of our community; and the comparatively few attempts which meet with any success at all in opening up this phase of life which is so full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University, stand out quite uniquely...
There should be no difficulty in raising the necessary funds, if some organization or body of men will take the initiative. Few men who are now in College came into close contact with Dean Shaler, so that the movement must rely for its support mainly upon graduates who had the good fortune to know him personally. Their number is so great, however, that, once a satisfactory project is inaugurated, its success will be assured...
...come amiss to suggest to the class of 1911 that the real opportunities for becoming acquainted as individuals and united as a class lie with themselves. However many classmates they may meet at large or small receptions, they will never feel well acquainted until they have come in contact in some more natural...
...which is now considered preparatory for those taking up professions, should be final for the large proportion of men who enter the business world? It may be objected that no matter how excellent the theoretical training of a graduate business school might be, it would not be equivalent to contact with actual business conditions. It is equally true that no lawyer or doctor is fitted to undertake difficult cases immediately upon receiving his degree. Practical knowledge is everywhere essential, but it is acquired much more easily by those having a good theoretical preparation...