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...Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
WRITING for the College papers is often a difficult task, as subjects of general interest are not always to be found. This difficulty is usually surmounted by the discovery of some cause for complaint, or else by the suggestion of some great project which is recommended to the reader as most worthy to be carried...
...because the students in general are not satisfied with their management. No student will pay $15 a year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs find it so difficult to obtain a membership sufficiently numerous to indemnify Mr. Blakey and fulfil their contract, and how may this state of things be improved...
...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...that the element of actual danger will be wanting, and therewith half the charm of surmounting hitherto untrodden summits. The London Alpine Club imposes as a condition on all candidates that they shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club to form any valid test of the ability of candidates, as it is a sad fact that there is scarce a high hill in New England which cannot be safely ascended on a cloudy day and without guides...