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...objection to this rule is that it seems injudicious to attempt to coerce other colleges into an agreement from which their better judgment shrinks; that it lessens the number of possible rivals; and that it may prevent us from meeting at all the representatives of a college which has always been our for3most rival in every sport, and in the contests with which the greatest interest and enthusiasm have been shown...
Three years ago Amherst College made a set of rules founded on the principle that each student was received as a gentleman and would be expelled whenever his conduct proved that he was not. Pres. Seelye says it is the unquestioned judgment of the faculty that there has been a great gain in regularity of attendance and standard of scholarship. No punishments are prescribed. The misbehaving student is not sent away nor even shut out of the recitation rooms, but no attention whatever is paid...
...Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall have to entrust the chances of our men to their judgment...
...true university is not to follow the bent of public opinion and yield to the demands of the agitators of the time but to lead public opinion. "We should consult the needs of the time and place in which we live." Exactly! But we must not always take the judgment of outsiders as to what those needs are. We must use our own judgment on those points and our judgment is very apt to differ from the judgment of the outside world. A university should occupy a position above the petty disputes of the time and should use its influence...
...science, and literature which can modify this. And, so far as literature is concerned, while I have nothing to say against those who are devoted to ancient literature, we certainly need for the great majority the study of literature, rich, accessible, directly bearing on modern life. In my judgment. the great German literature best suits this need...