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...last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...
...editorial in the current number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
...funds to erect a gate at Harvard in memory of Marshall Newell will surely be liberally responded to. Marshall Newell's life though ended so early and so sadly stands before us as a type to arouse ambition. It was that of a man whose pleasure it was to live among men and to unselfishly forward their interests; who considered nothing done unless well done, nothing won unless by steadfast effort...
...well-organized body. A man to be sure must not be known merely as having been a good athlete while in college. He must do something afterwards. And while I appreciate to the full what a well trained mind means, I am bound to say that the longer I live I come to believe that intellect comes second to the powers of perseverance and dogged persistence, those qualities that make an athlete...
...those, therefore, who live at a distance the success of the project would be most beneficial. They are, however, just the class who can not be reached by the committee. We hope that all such men who really favor the plan will aid the cause by signing at once...