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...doubt but that the greater part of us know all too little about Harvard,-and particularly about her past. Such a series of lectures as is suggested would not only "increase the affection of the undergraduate for his Alma Mater." It would give us all a better chance to learn some of the stories with which every one of us should be familiar, and ignorance of which must many times in after life prove a source of mortification and regret...
...justification of the book appears not only in fresh and vivid restatements of well-known views, but in occasional entirely original discussions, with much fruitful suggestiveness concerning not only Shakspere, but literature, art, and life. Even when one violently disagrees with the author, one is almost sure to learn something; which is perhaps the highest tribute that can be paid to the professional teacher...
...learn about great things, Mr. Copeland said, was to read the words of great men. With the exception of the first rank of our great leaders, no one could be found who surpassed General Sherman. His letters to his mother, which extend over the remarkable period of half a century, were the word of a great man telling of great things. From them we might get most truthful and vivid pictures of the Civil...
...development of the varying moods of the heart: it was suffering and torment which these men strove so successfully to paint and these characteristics of mankind have always had a most human interest, not that man might revel in the sufferings of others, but that he might learn how another has endured what he in his turn may have to bear...
...nearly every college in the country and that the unhappy condition of the country at large must inevitably have had its influence on college attendance. The parts of the catalogue which deals with the graduate and professional schools are full of significance. It is interesting, for instance, to learn that seventy different colleges are represented by graduates in the Law School; between seventy and eighty in the Graduate School; and thirty-five in the Medical School. These men have come, not only from American colleges, but in some cases from the great English and European Universities. All of which goes...