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...observed that very seldom, if ever, are men who have had a college training found claiming that it has proved worthless or estimating its value in any way but the reverse of this. And if a list of facts is called for from those who hold that college breeding is worthless, or worse, out of which their uncomfortable belief has grown, it will be found that the facts are only such as have their foggy existence in want of knowledge and misconception. A small list, in proportion, of tramps, loafers, paupers, will be gathered from college alumni. Nor will...
...urgent need of a new dormitory becomes more and more apparent at the beginning of each college year. Especially is the want felt this year, with the largest freshman class that has ever come to Harvard. If the classes continue to increase, as seems likely judging from the past, it is but a question of time when more suitable accommodations must be furnished either by the college itself or by private enterprise. A great majority of students prefer rooming in the college buildings, as the rooms are more convenient, and in many instances cheaper. The popularity of the college rooms...
...freshman class meeting was one of the most closely contested that has ever been held...
...said to have had either a national life or a national literature ; therefore she has neither great statesmen, theologians nor scholars. But among such men of eminence as these were, Harvard had a full representation, as will be seen from a summary of honors attained by the first class ever graduated, that of 1642. Out of the nine graduates, six were distinguished as follows : "One was sent both by Cromwell and Charles II., as minister to the states General of Holland. One became a follow of a college at Oxford ; two received degrees in medicine at Leyden and Padua...
...this inroad of radicalism is much longer permitted we may look next for the appearance of the epidemic even at Harvard. We do not know that ever, of late years at least, a Harvard professor has been guilty of the sin of light literature, or has ever manifested any desire to show a talent that should startle the world ; still it is the unexpected that always happens and we should be on our guard...