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...following are the subjects for Themes in English 5: "Is it desirable that a literary class should exist in this country?" "Is it worth while to write a play that is not suitable for the stage...
...Neither the Harvard Divinity School, nor any divinity school in this country or in England, exists simply for the cultivation of theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School...
...race, but is not pleased with the Atlantic's article, which it calls wishy-washy. We agree with the Courant that there is a little hyperbole about the statement that to point out the faults of Yale's method of rowing is "simply to enumerate every one that can exist." In the article "To the Freshmen," the Courant informs them that they are members of the greatest of American institutions. Whew...
...number of men who carry their hero-worship to such an extent is happily small. But although Gosling is not often seen at Harvard, he does exist here. We all know him. He is not an imaginary phenomenon, but real flesh and blood. To use a milder and perhaps more applicable illustration than the former one, he is the man who, though he has a short neck, must needs make himself ugly and very miserable by wearing a high collar, because Swellington, who has a long neck, can wear such a collar comfortably and to advantage...
...conditions of most of the existing scholarships have been fixed by their donors, and it would be difficult - and perhaps, in some cases, not even desirable - to change them. Still, opportunities for a new departure seem to exist, and future benefactors would be influenced by any views that were deliberately adopted by the authorities. The vigorous administration of President Eliot is a source of pride to graduates. He undoubtedly wishes to open the doors of Harvard to the very best talent this country can produce, without the slightest reference to the class of society from which it is drawn...