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...never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate the fact that it has much to learn, and is, therefore, at the very foot of the ladder, and with no prospect of rising until it feels that its wonderful growth in wealth and power, although unexampled, is still not the only requisite to perfection...
...life, it is because college men, as students of the past, are too apt to think that the past is everything, and the present nothing, and so find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither few nor far between, our claims are worth considering. Let us hope something will be done in the near future to supply...
...come here wishing to learn to read French and German, and caring little about writing these languages. For such students courses I and II, with but slight attention to composition, are provided in German. The only corresponding French course is VIII, where large amounts are read. Yet there is a half course, and can be taken only as an extra. French I, as now carried on, has far more composition than the average student cares for. So the time spent in trying to get a working knowledge of French does not, as in other languages, count for a degree...
This habit of defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to the preparation for examination in French I. We have already had all the work we can do for the daily recitations. Now we are pleased to learn that in addition to grinding up all we have read in class, we are to have forty or fifty pages extra, which we have had no time to go over with the instructor. It is asking too much...