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Such beliefs, it seems to us, promise much good. It is not the function of universities simply to give a few men knowledge, but rather to fit these few men to be the means of making knowledge possible for many people. The university is not to create an intellectual class, but is to intellectualize the whole country. The temptation is very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen...
...committee who are arranging for the Harvard night have now completed the initial portion of their work. The committee consider that their only function is to afford some practical method by which the students may be enabled to make use of the offer which has been made. Inasmuch as there seems to be not the best of chances that Mr. Irving will address the students, this other opportunity for Harvard to come into touch with the great artist will be more eagerly taken...
...best features of the football matches would be lost if the support was onesided. It certainly would be well, however, to have college games before college assemblages. The athletic games which are largely attended by the outside public tend alike to give the public a wrong estimate of the function of universities, to give the students a wrong impression of what the outside world thinks important, and it also draws to the unversities a wholly undesirable class of notoriety-seeking, half-professional athletes. These, if no more, of the President's suggestions promise much practical benefit, and will repay thorough...
...work, or as means of maintaining healthy and vigorous bodies in serviceable condition for the intellectual and moral life. With athletics considered as an end in themselves, pursued either for pecuniary profit or for popular applause, a college or university has nothing to do. Neither is it an appropriate function for a college or university to provide periodical entertainments during term-time for multitudes of people who are not students...
...retiring ninety-four board in particular, have done great service to the paper by the number of solid improvements which they have made. It will be the endeavor of the incoming board to continue their work and constantly to make the paper better fitted to fulfil its function...