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...publishing a few extracts from letters received by the Boston Globe in reply to the three questions on journalism-1, what is your opinion of the journalism of to-day? 2, how do you think the tone of the modern press can be improved? 3, what is your ideal of a newspaper? The extracts quoted below are all from gentlemen connected with the University...
...this reparation for this "heartrending" episode has already caused the officers and members of our orchestral club to break the vow which they had made never to accept another invitation to play in Wellesley. Now they are in that frame of mind that they can conceive of no more ideal ending to this intercollegiate misunderstanding than an invitation to play in Wellesley in the spring, when balmy moonlight nights enhance the already great charms of that delightful spot...
...impression this episode gave me of the debilitated tone of social responsibility here was startling. By social responsibility I mean the willingness to act for the social ideal, no matter how much obstructive individuals have to suffer. In this sort of civic courage our race has led history; and why it should be so lacking here I do not know. Perhaps my vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what...
...themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...liberal education to widen the mind, to make it turn more readily to new subjects of interest, to make it understand the ideas of others. The man who is liberally educated should possess more varied pleasures, a sounder judgment, more sympathy with his fellow-beings, a higher ideal of life and of its duties, than are held by other men. No education which is simply intellectual can give all these, but a proper intellectual education may assist a young man in acquiring them...