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Another hindrance to the congregational singing is the unfamiliar, unsuitable and often difficult musical settings. Either the air is rarely heard or, if well known, it hardly seems to fit the unfamiliar stanzas; and in several cases where both music and words are familiar the high-pitched arrangements for the former boy choir are out of range of the average voice...
...most timely in these "troublous days," a clear call, as the vigorous editorial article, "Opportunities and Services" sets forth, to the College man to do his duty,--the duty which President Lowell so clearly and forcibly pointed out at the opening meeting of the year, to work to fit himself to serve...
...board of editors is made up from two annual competitions,--one held in the fall and one in the spring. Each competition lasts until the candidate has proved himself a fit man for editor, or manager. Ordinarily candidates entering the competition in the fall shall stand for election at the April board meeting, those entering in the spring shall stand for election at the November meeting of the Board; but any candidate having done satisfactory work may be elected at any regular board meeting. Two cuts will be made in the fall competition,--one before the December recess...
...George Herbert Palmer, professor of philosophy in Harvard University, a teacher who holds his students by scholarship of living power, a clear thinker of calm meditative tone, a student of ethics with a deep grasp on that theistic truth which underlies all righteousness, a literary artist--fit editor of the poems of his spiritual ancestor, George Herbert; his refinement in style, whether in philosophy or literature being no mere fastidiousness, but the reflex of refined thought, a philosopher in the original sense, widely influential for good and imbued with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth which gives substance and worth...
...private school graduates; in sharp contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...