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...short essay, "A Literary Mania." Mr. Colby justly asserts that the appreciation of literature has been supplanted by the glibness of a catalogue, that we no longer read with enthusiasm or perception but merely with a pedantic consciousness of literary tendencies and influences. This too is the fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed...
What a pity! Such a fine system is debarred, through no fault of its own, from playing the full role which it is destined to play. The limitations are not inherent but exterior to it. The intrinsic value of the system is then, in no wise diminished. The sole trouble with this superimposed tutorial system is that there is no room made for it to stand on. It depends for its execution on the spasmodic efforts of the individual and on the mercy of the overwhelming regular work. Its co-existence with the undiminished ordinary study renders its very existence...
...They cheek with the blighting hand of Expediency the clear-cut stroke of Justice. They may be Statesmen, but they can never be thinkers. They may follow: but they never lead. They may pride themselves that though they are not trial breakers they are road-makers; but their greatest fault is that they are usually frightened off the straight and narrow path into tortuous and crooked detours or endless halts, but the growling of the big pussies in the tall timber. HAROLD M. FLEMING...
...There are rules regulating stalling. A good official can prevent undue stalling, and it is his duty to do so. If he can't, the fault lies with him and not with the rules...
Those who deplored the loss of the old courses and the letting down of the requirements that foreign literatures be studied will see in the new educational movement a vindication of their oft-expressed fears. But whether the fault be due to what they say it is or not, the colleges will do well to demand of those taking diplomas that they measure up to what the world expects of men and women who have had college opportunities...