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...this throng come up, out of the bustle and strife of the forum and the market place, to our academic seat? What spirit stirs this multitude to-day? You have come to pay homage to the university of your love, and through it to all universities; because in them truth is sought, knowledge increased and stored, literature, science and art are fostered, and honor, duty, and piety are taught. The spirit in which you come is a spirit of profound and well-grounded hopefulness...
...President of the University; his fame shall not, to use his own language, this day be left to 'a dogged dirge and a Latin epitaph': - we pronounce him while he lives, in our mother tongue, the ornament of the forum, the senate and the academy...
Prof. Young of Princeton, has an interesting article on "Athletics in American colleges" in the current number of the Forum...
...Preston has a very able article in the current number of the Forum on the need of denominational Catholic Schools...
...becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render any aid to the poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule the Parliament of Man; but never casts a vote at a civil election. What is politics to him? The play of infants...