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...show and record what the student does not know, rather than what he does. Attempts to interest the student in his work were then, and are now, rarely made, and through the great importance placed upon recitations pure and simple, the practice of "skinning" in all its forms has grown up. The writer remembers only one course in his whole college experience from which he got any real pleasure. With this one exception he feels that he can say with Teufelsdroch, "my teachers were hide-bound pedants...
...agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer...
...abuses which have for a generation distinguished Harvard. Notwithstanding this condition of affairs, no notice is taken of them, but all friends of education and civilization are invited to send, even at a personal sacrifice, money to Athens to aid in the study of the Erectheum. Truly, learning has grown to gigantic proportions if its pursuit is allowed to overstep the most ordinary and evident bounds of common sense...
...successfully. Few have minds filled for all kinds of composition. Yet unhappily most of us never seem fully to realize that we cannot make valuable contributions to every department of literature. We feel that whatever man has done, we can do, forgetting that we are not yet full grown men. We incline to the mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure, it may be very good training to attempt a poem which proves to be anything but poetry; but to publish such a failure...
...fact of Harvard's prosperity cannot be deemed an approval of the new system. Prof. Ladd urges that other colleges where the old system is in vogue have also been remembered. Yale has grown in number of students as well...