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...college student, these gentlemen maintain that there is no practical course other than connection with a college paper, and they strongly advise connection with some outside daily at the time. A man should learn to know what he wants to say, and then say it in the clearest and fewest possible words. Good practice is obtained by reporting events for pleasure and comparing with the newspaper accounts. Much attention should be given to Law, History, and English Literature, as well as the other subjects mentioned by Mr. Reid...
From various entries in the journal we learn that "Harvard indifference" is not of recent growth. May 23rd, 1836, "all the officers except the junior secretary being absent, a committee was appointed to inquire the reason, and a long discussion took place on the infelicitous state of the society." At the next meeting a committee appointed "to concert measures to raise the character of the society and excite more interest in the exercises," recommended that "in order to secure the attendance of a fixed number of members so necessary for the improvement at which we aim, a new list...
...degree, the work of the elocution department, for the purpose of giving systematic training to those about to contest for the Boylston prizes. This year, we are told, the rehearsals of the Shakspere Club have taken so much time that this has been impossible. We are sorry to learn than an old, and established institution has been slighted to further the interests of what can not be regarded as other than an innovation...
This same Brown game was conspic uous also for another censurable feature-the neglectful treatment of the visitors by the home management. We learn that not the slightest act of hospitality was extended to our freshmen. Such conduct is self-condemnible. We hope, however, that, when the return game is played in Cambridge, the Brown men will have occasion to learn what hospitality and courtesy...
...saying, that nowhere can a man get a more thorough knowledge of human nature than during his college life. Business wants all the men it can get equipped in just this way. Special training is of course required after graduation, but the college man has acquired the ability to learn better and more quickly a particular branch of trade than a non-graduate, and is usually much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap...