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...following from yesterday's Advertiser will explain itself: Will you permit us through your columns to call attention of Harvard men to the projected Harvard Literary Monthly. In our opinion, the gentlemen who have this plan in charge possess, as a body, a greater amount, and a higher degree of literary ability and promise than any other group of students whom we have known as pupils; and it seems to us that their scheme will probably result in a publication whose literary value will be highly creditable to the college...
...actual expenses of the Harvard crew, which you place, for last year at $8,236. Of this sum, a large portion came down as an indebtedness from the year before. Then, too, the money paid out by the Boat Club, is largely in excess of its actual expenditures. To explain this, it is necessary to speak briefly of the manner of keeping the accounts of the Boat Club. For the sake of simplicity, the annual report of the treasurer is a statement of all the money handed in to, and paid by, the Boat Club. In many of its money...
...understand it, this new departure in the matter of prizes is intended to supply a long felt want, by instituting a series of "scholarships" in athletics, very much as we have a system of scholarships for literary excellence. To explain: let us suppose that a man comes to Cornell with but a meagre allowance of cash, and mental abilities, but with a plentiful endowment of muscle. It is tolerably obvious that, under the old-time order of things, his progress to knowledge will be beset with difficulties of a financial nature. But under the new system no such hindrance exists...
...characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product? If so, I know not how we can explain responsibility. But if we say that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream...
...hard to understand the nature of such a force; and perhaps on this account people are apt, in discussing the freedom of the will, to confuse this special kind of freedom with those others which I have tried to explain. Another source of confusion is the prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...