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...except five or six seniors have had first sittings at Pach...
Secondly, let the proctors keep still, if they can, and let them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought...
They say that the universities produce dislike for hard life, and in this dislike is an ultimate and incurable cause of illsuccess. Others, though less hostile, consider the university career "no good," except to give manners, and hold that the money and time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to secure a problematical gain, in the way not so much of success or of happiness, as of grade. These men are seldom thoroughly cultivated, but greatly exaggerate the effect of university culture upon grade, perhaps of all errors about the system the one most generally prevalent. Still others maintain strongly...
...culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates, but in theory the Scotchman - who, be it remembered, is not led away on the subject either by flunkyism or sentiment, or any strong wish that his sons...
K.Harvard, we think, agrees with all of the above except with the proposition to exclude Brown from the proposed new league of the larger colleges. It would be a measure of doubtful expediency...