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...live at all odds a happy life. If he sees misery in any form he becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render any aid to the poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule the Parliament of Man; but never casts a vote at a civil election. What...
...expenses for each period of three or four years, average more than for each corresponding period. What is worse, for the last few years, the crew has run in debt again. At the end of each year, the excess of liabilities over assets has grown until now the club finds itself $1,455.07 behind. It is this that we complain of. We cannot go on increasing the debt forever. Incurring a debt, except in some cases for extraordinary expenditures for permanent benefit, is willfully spending other people's money, hardly an honest proceeding. This is why we wish to have...
That college government has grown, is growing, and will grow, very much as political government, can hardly be doubted. We can but see that in the past, tyrannical or monarchic government was quite as prevalent in colleges as it had been in political institutions. We see, too, that college government has grown slowly from the purely tyrannical stage or period, until at last it has reached the oligarchic. "Government of the students, by the faculty, for the faculty," is a phrase that will, perhaps, convey a slightly exaggerated idea of the old time system of college government...
...elective system, and energetically opposed it. Curtailments in the choice of elective courses followed. Shortly after, a reaction set in, and in 1866 the advance toward free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated in the action of the faculty which has recently been taken. The college has steadily grown with the enlargement of the curriculum, and each year has shown a steady rise in the scholarship of the students, until last year 77 per cent. of the freshman class received 50 per cent. or over for their year's work. If greater ease is allowed the student...
...third excellency of the proposed scheme is the provision for special representatives to be called to each conference, men with a large knowledge of the subject to be discussed. In a university as large as Harvard has grown to be, every man cannot be expected to understand thoroughly every question of the day, and the special representation at these conferences is like the employment of specialists at important trials, a feature of modern civilization which has come to play a recognized part in all great law cases...