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...much higher object than the mere making of money. We should cultivate the highest possible conception of journalism from top to bottom, from the editor-in-chief to the reporter. It seems to me, said Mr. Quincy, that the need for University men as reporters is very great. The function of the reporter is not low, but most important, and if the tone of the press is to be raised, it must be through the reporters. Let us then get educated men upon our papers, and lot. Harvard graduates start at the bottom, for it takes a man of education...
...proper and desirable function of a professional coach does not include the personal conduct and direction of a game from the side lines or the bench. Such a practice amounts to the same thing as prompting an actor from behind the scenes. After a man has been taught how to play the game, he should be allowed to play it; and the men on a team should oppose the idea of having their plays in a game directed by a paid coach as they would scorn the idea of having a tutor stand behind them to tell them what...
...Function of Scholarship...
...first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive scholarship, of the creative mind, in any form of intellectual work. The men whose chief concern lies with the work...
...professors in the Harvard Divinity School and the professors in Andover Theological Seminary, with the President of the University, shall constitute a "Council for Theology, with advisory powers only, its function being to suggest, plan, and co-ordinate courses for theological instruction...