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Second - The system unavoidably fails, in some cases, to be a correct index of ability or industry. That would perhaps be a matter of small moment were it not that the public is prone to consider success or failure in gaining an honor the infallible test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level...
...will relieve the anxiety of the alumni to learn that the impression conveyed by the semi-official announcement is not altogether correct, and that the college authorities will not undertake to interfere in any way with the entertainment provided at the reunions of the different classes. So the alumni can indulge themselves as of yore, with none to molest or make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there...
...vote to bestow them where they are undeserved, is an absurdity. "Popularity" which is to be lost in this way is better lost than gained. Matters have not yet come to such a pass in Massachusetts that an individual or an institution will lose anything by adherence to correct and consistent principles...
...really "correct...
...difficult to give an accurate statement of the religious condition of Harvard University. Perhaps the recent account of the matter, which makes Harvard's religious condition about that of the world outside, is nearly correct. The faculty includes men of every shade of belief from the Agnostic and Pantheist to the Methodist and Baptist. And nearly the same thing might be said of the students, though I should be inclined to give credit to the report which represents the number of students from evangelical homes as continually increasing. The connection between teachers and students is much less close than...