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...presence of so much solemn verse has put the editor in a pessimistic mood for he bewails the ignorance and stupidity which estrauges student and professor from helpful human relations. I have personally seen so little of this estrangement that I cannot write on it intelligently, if it does exist. One of the best things I have gained from my teaching has been the friendship of students; one living among eternal youth--for undergraduates represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself stay young. There are few professors whom I have known who do not enter deeply into the lives of some...
Something exists: however reckless and extravagant this statement seems, let us accept it provisionally and term that something ourselves. Man is a compound of a material part called the body, and an intangible part called the soul. The facts about the body are simple; the soul being invisible is only assumed to exist, first through its apparent effects, secondly through self-consciousness. There is but one form of self-consciousness to which we are not passive; we may feel pain or sensation, but we never say that we feel the will. It is always subjective and active...
...class, their club-mates and their surroundings in the private dormitories are refining influences, and although a poor man may work his way through College, he is thought none the less a man. The craze for being the social equals of wealthy men, in contrast to Europe, does not exist among the poorer men in the American University...
...Without doubt winter sports have a right to live, and none more so than hockey. But to abolish intercollegiate contests altogether will certainly kill this game. Intracollegiate athletics cannot exist without a varsity team which the contestants hope sometime to make...
...English system of Intracollegiate athletics would not continue, or even exist, were it not that the best men of each college are continually sent up for a trial on the varsity. Their athletics would fail, in spite of the strong feeling between the colleges, were it not for these trials...