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...there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of any value, is not dreamed of. The specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering of many things, but know nothing well. But how can it be otherwise? Men whose whole attention has been given to discovering what will pay in the schools...
...great deal is heard about the benefits of college education in business life and in professional life, but of its benefits in life itself, in life in its most general sense, little is heard. It is quite true that the business man is better if he be a college educated man, and that the doctor or lawyer is surer of success if his knowledge of medicine or law be founded on a college training; but is it also true that the man himself, regardless of his occupation or profession, is a better man if he have a college education...
Thanks to the excellent management, everything passed off splendidly, and a more enjoyable time could scarcely be imagined. The request of Manager Claflin in regard to crackers and rockets was strictly obeyed, the sound of but one bunch of crackers being heard during the entire evening...
Several complaints are heard from students rooming in the yard to the effect that articles have been disappearing lately from many of the rooms. Students cannot be too careful to lock their doors whenever they are not in their rooms...
...change in the hour of examinations from 10 to 9.15 A. M. appears to be extremely distasteful to many undergraduates, and complaints are again heard against the "wiles of the crafty faculty" which thus deprive the poor student of an hour in which he hopes by a stupendous exertion to review the work of months. We think that these complaints are unjust, and that the authors of the new rule have shown their real regard for the student's interest by thus depriving them of that time in which many men against their better judgment, unfit themselves by hard study...