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...while likely to be judged unsparingly, if he has ability it is quickly appreciated. Again the reproduction in the petty theatre of the rivalry of the leading parties brings the vital issues at stake in a simplified form before the members, and yet shows the real difficulties of general legislation; while too the individual members have to make a study of the peculiar wants of their constituencies, they gain much valuable information, which cannot but broaden them in their judgment, and make them less narrow in looking at matters from the range alone of their own districts...
...same general lines are followed out as in the national parliament, and the daily doings are closely scanned, and a clear knowledge gained of the drift of politics, so that when elections come the situation is grasped with acuteness and intelligence that finds no equal the world over...
...almost bewildering when one looks about him for the facts on which their opinions are based, to read so frequently from able and high-minded newspapers of the very general incapacity of college-bred men for the practical affairs of life. Generally this estimate of the value and efficiency of college-bred men finds expression in connection with lamentations over the condition of labor and the laborers of the community. If only the collegebred men had trades instead of "education," then things would have been, if not still exactly right, pretty nearly right...
...were, Harvard had a full representation, as will be seen from a summary of honors attained by the first class ever graduated, that of 1642. Out of the nine graduates, six were distinguished as follows : "One was sent both by Cromwell and Charles II., as minister to the states General of Holland. One became a follow of a college at Oxford ; two received degrees in medicine at Leyden and Padua ; one received a degree of divinity at Oxford, then as now, the greatest academically distinction to which an English theologian can attain...
...sincerely hope that the directors of the Harvard Reading Room will find it possible to start that deserving and very useful institution this year on an enlarged and greatly improved basis. The support received by the college reading-room in the past has varied greatly, generally in proportion to the degree of energy manifested by its managers for the time being as well as to the amount of interest shown by different classes in college. There is no reason, however, why this year, Harvard college, with its largely increased size should not find it to its interest and convenience...