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...artistic feeling which the college men possess, then it becomes well worth looking at. We hope that the Camera Club will consider this exhibition as merely the beginning of a series of annual or even semiannual exhibitions. They have an excellent opportunity of drawing out and fostering the artistic element of the college; and such is the importance of this element in developing a truly fine understanding, that they should take every chance they can to promote...
Whenever there appears at Harvard anything which will tend to keep alive a spirit of gentlemanly rivalry among the classes and which will add a wholesome element of fun and sport to the life of the college, it should be warmly welcomed. At present we have such an influence alive, working through the class championship games, especially in base ball. The howling crowds on Jarvis, the miscellaneous music, and the cannon too, all play an important part in keeping Havard from being a place where the life of the college is all shut up in recitation halls and reading rooms...
...upon opposing teams as enemies, who should be downed by any fair means, and whose good points had absolutely no claim for recognition from Harvard men. Anyone with an instant's reflection will see what a misconceived, unsportsmanlike line of action this is. There is a generous, manly enough element in college to treat the visiting teams with courtesy, and make them feel as if they had come not among mortal enemies, but among appreciative friends...
...Aristotle, but they could give no solution. Even the stoics gave us no ethics in the light of science. The Christian revelation came in finally, with the doctrines of divine truth, and raised mankind. The idea of a science of ethics came to Francis Bacon. Today, the deplorable element in the advance of science, is that the physical sciences have exalted themselves, and imagine that they replace the heart. They draw all the attention. But in the study of a labor movement, there is no interest. What we get from physics, chemistry and geology, constitute but the wall of facts...
...history we are awaiting the man who will give us literature and not a mere dull record of facts. It must be made interesting to avail much. Most writers speak of the pleasure to be derived from reading. The ascetic element in New Englanders demands more than that. Therefore, it is the general good to be derived from it which I wish to emphasize. However, it is not only the writers of truths which are attractive; Voltaire, in spite of his petty foibles, Sydney Smith and Lamb with their delightful humor, Heine and Kant; they all have their virtues...