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...standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both are regarded as worthless. They are given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army of Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Law, etc., is turned loose upon an unsuspecting community that had, up to that time, lived in blissful iignorance of the latent talent wasting in its midst, and destined...
This kind of specialism, however, suggests another quite different kind which has not been very generally noticed, but which, nevertheless, is very prevalent here at Harvard and elsewhere. Reference is had to the "grind," and the "swell" (or, to be more modern, the "dude"), and the "professional" athlete. All men, who are properly called by any one of these names, and to whom any other can be applied only with a very slight degree of correctness, are specialists; and their specialism has to be attended with great injury to themselves as well as to the general interests of the college...
...Yale crew leaves for New London on the 18th. A New Haven boating man says that the general appearance of the men in the boat is careless. They splash altogether too much at the finish and catch. This will have to be overcome in order to create a favorable impression on the Thames...
...following is from the first issue of the Williams Fortnight: "The pros and cons of this question have been thoroughly discussed both by the college press and the outside world, and the general verdict is that compulsory chapel must go. A student can gain no spiritual advantage from attendance at a service against his will, and he is, moreover, provided he has reached his majority, better qualified to judge concerning such a matter, than the faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity...
...taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already been noticed, and they may be summed up under the general charge of its destruction of intellectual morality and alienation of science and research...