Word: great
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...they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done; and we are justified in believing that the college of the future has a great work to do for the American people...
...German "gymnasium" is qualified to study under any of the faculties of the university, then it would seem that the professional schools ought to be so ordered that they are adapted to receive him. But let us not be dogmatic in this matter, for it is one on which great divergence of opinion exists. The instructors in the various professional schools are by no means of one mind in regard to it, and their views are of course based largely upon experience. Our Law School lays great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular...
...first editorial, which is devoted to the Freshman class. One sentence in this editorial is significant as showing the profound insight of the present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need...
President Lowell has outlined in his inaugural address three great policies to the accomplishment of which his administration is to be chiefly devoted: the adjustment of the elective system for the highest development of the individual student; the achievement of more harmonious relations between the College and the professional schools; and the restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest...
...local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college, but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...