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...often of English descent, but was thoroughly Irish in other ways. He stood against the measure to abolish the Irish Parliament which was passed only by the worst kind of bribery. The abolition of the Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition...
...order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
Professor Richards expressed a welcome to Cambridge both to new students and to President Lowell. The word "Veritas" is a fine word under which to live...
Many graduates of the University who live at a distance from Cambridge are prevented from enrolling as Associate Members of the Union by the fact that they are able to take advantage of its privileges only on rare occasions. They may have been members throughout their College course, or may have been graduated before the founding of the Union, thus losing the opportunity to become familiar with its advantages. Yet because as graduates they are eligible to membership, they are denied the use of the club-house on their occasional visits to Cambridge. It has become the policy...
...year by about three hundred and fifty men: About fifteen men report on it and of these some favor, some regret it. The editorial comment of the Illustrated asking the teachers "to do their best" made a deep impression on me. I asked myself: What can I do to live up to the demand of the Senior who wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest...