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...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...
...latest revelation has, however, gone too far in the direction of realism. It belies itself. The "Mayflower", of all impeccable ships, is now accused of carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...
...filling then pockets it and harassing their political control. Their pre-war debts have practically disappeared; the wages they must pay have risen relatively slowly; and all business they do outside of Germany brings them a hand-some profit. So they oil the printing press and drew another trunk load of paper from the mint...
...weeks, it is impossible to spread over a long time the final review necessary for the fingertip knowledge required in the Divisional Examinations. In the meantime, all other work, tests, reports, weekly quizzes, naturally suffers. The additional burden of daily work under such circumstances tends to spill the whole load...
...little time to inform themselves or their advisees concerning courses or fields of concentration. With some ten or fifteen men in line to be advised the man "in the presence" does not feel at liberty to say very much. The real remedy is to lighten the advisor's load. Seniors, for example, might be struck from his list without any great danger to their degrees: by the time a man reaches his last year in college he does not, or should not, need advice on courses. And if the plan works, the freedom could be extended to Juniors, giving...