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...extremists have gone so far as to assert that college unfits a man for a business career. This in general we cannot agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...
...corrected. The very habit of expressing ones opinion before others is of itself an exceedingly valuable thing, but it is a habit rarely found in college men. It is easier to take things for granted than to ask about them; it is much less humiliating to be a silent fool than to advertise ones folly; yet the silent fool must continue in his folly while the other becomes wise. If the student would put away this childish reticence some of the courses which are now characterized as dry-as-dust would become much more interesting and much more profitable...
...that so well-written and vivid a story as "A Fool's Fancy", by H. B. Eddy, should have such a weak and careless ending. The expedient of putting the outcome of the plot into words adapted to a child's understanding was a happy and effective one, but to end the whole thing in such words was to carry the story to an anti-climax...
...verse called the "Rollicking Fool and the Weeping Maid" is worthy of mention both for its jolly swing and its deep underlying thought. The "Epitaph for a Poet" is also an attractive thing...
Tremont - E. S. Willard in a Fool's Paradise...