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...others will adopt law or journalism or the ministry. This assumption, once at least, explicitly stated, is the most striking peculiarity in the address which Mr. Irving delivered in the Sanders Theatre Monday evening. The intelligence, the elevated tone and the dignity of the lecture, and the high ideal of his art presented by the speaker, were very noteworthy...
...must again arouse himself and seek for something more that shall give him legislative and executive power. Indeed, he would ask for this power to-day, did he not know that he who is greedy often loses all. His hopes are that what now to may seems so ideal may, in the end, become quite real and present, that the existing college government may evolve into a government by faculty and students, conducted in unity and harmony, and attended-as he believes it would be-by vigorous life and unquestionable prosperity...
...country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged...
...trample upon many a venerable institution to reach it-we persuade ourselves that our endeavors are in the right direction, and that the success that shall crown our efforts is almost within our grasp. And, it is safe to assert, the educational interests of America are rapidly approaching the ideal state of completeness, which is so much to be desired...
...hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank...