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Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
Princeton has already taken extensive precautions against becoming a "local university". Harvard should adopt similar measures. The diffusing of information among Western and Southern schools apropos to the requirements for admission and departments of the University; creating better facilities for men of those schools to take the entrance examinations; establishing regional scholarships;--all would tend to direct large numbers of men to Harvard which would benefit both the men and the University. No one will deny that the academic side of Harvard is the apotheosis of all educational institutions. Why, then, should the other equally important side of a college...
...detachment, and skill. There the story is, layer within layer,--all distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...fault of Harvard graduates that their confidence in the Alma Mater's superiority never permits them to explain her advantages. But because her advantages are so well understood by them is no assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South need Harvard. To encourage this intercourse, no new machinery is necessary. All that...
...education of young America in lines far from truth. It is said that the proposed bill is likely to pass Congress. In order that we may make sure and safe on honest and democratic education, we must see to it that national aid and guidance be combined with absolute local independence. This is a problem that concerns nothing less than the future of freedom in the United States. It comes home to every thinking American...