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...attitude at the end of college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise to spend his time in doing things to develop the former rather than waste it in analyzing the latter. One has only to picture the fate of any poor man who set out to discover exactly why he came to college. If he were lucky he might escape with nothing worse than a complete nervous collapse, and it is certain that he would not succeed in satisfying himself, or his critics, or the requirements for his degree...
...grossly overrated and misrepresented by scholastic interpreters. All that is gained is superficial, and merely feeds the public and the presses with new mirages. Until Harvard can find some medium for competition other than the present basis of divisional examinations, the plan is destined to a halting fate...
...fate of Black Beauty, ignominiously harnessed to a hackney cab, is not so gloomy as that of these mighty beasts of the illustrious prince. No more will they be watched by the beau monde to catch the latest developments in fashion. Traditions of the past are the sparkling and fresh witticisms which accompanied each throw they gave their master. Only in memory are the steeple chases they so nobly lost...
...green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather felt that I was obliged to look after it myself...
...schools, alumni. The vision of the founder has never been realized; his ideal of a huge gathering-place for half a dozen college generations is one beyond the possibilities or desires of Harvard individualism; but the functions of the Union are no less important for being more limited. Its fate is a concern of all the two thousand five hundred members...