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...sorry politician. Yet if more Harvard students should read the daily newspaper carefully, intelligently, and with a view to becoming acquainted with the events and the leading men of to-day, an increased interest in public affairs would result; and one means to retrieve the vital mistake, as President Eliot calls it, Harvard has made in not sending more men into politics would be found...
...true that there is to be established at Harvard a Deronda professorship? The literature of the subject really seems to call for this; and as Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, I see, has been lecturing on George Eliot before the Boston University, I hope that the authorities at your Cambridge seat of learning may be waking up to this great want of the time. The lecture-room of the new professor ought to be in the Zoological Museum for convenient reference in a general way to matters pertaining to the Stone Age and various geological strata, which might throw valuable light...
...name of Professor Goodwin, "one of the few men who can reason scientifically on the subject of Greek tenses," as an English authority once said. In the next class was the late Chauncy Wright, one of the foremost American biologists; and in the next, President Eliot. The class of '55 contained Alexander Agassiz, recognized in this and other countries as an authority on natural history, and also Phillips Brooks, than whom there is scarcely a more prominent preacher in this country. In the next class we find C. F. Adams, Jr., eminent as an authority on the subject of railroads...
...those who are most likely to take the deepest interest in the College, and who are best fitted to judge what is for its welfare, - the graduates; we are free from all political influences which stand in the way of advancement in many institutions, and the evils which President Eliot set forth so well in his argument against a National University; we are not governed by a close Corporation which may be tainted with the bigotry of the past ages. All this is very pleasing; but, before we become too boastful, let us remember that it is only ten years...
...these men, at a time when another enticing scheme to draw them hither is but getting under way. We have no doubt that a week taken from the summer vacation would have a decided and baneful effect upon the experiment of the Cincinnati examinations. By turning to President Eliot's last report (p. 11), the policy of the College in this matter will at once be seen. The fact that three months is by no means too long a vacation for those who spend the summer abroad may not have any effect upon the minds of the gentlemen...