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...best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience be ? Evolution teaches...
...would be a superfluous fear to suppose that any undue vanity is likely to be cultivated in the undergraduate body by the publicity to which they are yearly becoming more and more exposed form these visits. Such vanity of course could not be an individual but a collective vanity, and from the nature of things that is not likely to arise. Besides it cannot but be felt, not oppressively, but modestly, that the students themselves are by far the least interesting of the features of this university. Buildings and apparatus on the one hand and the distinguished men who belong...
...Arnold, if I remember rightly, said that Emerson could not be reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests, of originality is suggestiveness. And it is originality in any department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought...
...candidate in such courses. Either he must buy or borrow for himself all these books, or he must make use of the library. The former method is the better for those who are able to afford it. When, however, important references are given to several large books, and these form parts of sets of several volumes for each work, to bry the books is beyond the means or inclination of the larger part of the students In any particular section. This larger part resorts to the library. Here have been reserved the necessary books,-in some cases a single copy...
...graduates of Harvard who reside in Washington are to form a Harvard Club. Hon. Geo. Bancroft, '17, the historian, will be the first president...