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Hence it is that the Harvard men who died with the Central Powers have no rights at their Alma Mater now and upon no possible basis can they be entitled to equal honor with those who died with the Allies. War is too brutal, too devastating and too idiotic to be so easily smoothed over as this. The only hope of the war generations in history is to justify their fighting by the results, and if there be no results, as there cannot be if all are now considered equal, their condemnation will be terrible...
...very simple alternative suggests itself. The A and B men might well be placed in conference groups, meeting once a week or once every two weeks, and given fortnightly quizzes. This method is used with outstanding success in History 1; and the subject mater in this course is considerably more difficult than that encountered in a study of elementary economics. Such a reorganization, much needed, would be in line with the principle that "the best education is self-education," and is accord with the tutorial system now being increasingly stressed at Harvard...
Harvard conferred a single honorary A.M. in each of the years 1709, 1710, and 1712. These notations bring the record up to 1714, when Harvard adopted the custom of granting on the application of graduates of other colleges the same degree they had received from their own Alma Mater, and such applicants made up most of the recipients of honorary Harvard degrees for almost a century. This list of honorary degrees granted ad eundem gradum includes the names of many notable persons, but the College authorities gradually came to the conclusion that the practice was not a worthy...
...Adams (John Quincy) characterized the conferring of this degree as 'a sycophantic compliment' ", writes one of the later Jackson biographers, "and spitefully and most unjustly wrote in his diary. 'As myself, an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her diagrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammer and hardly could spell his own name...
...Gothic spires rose over the Isis it has been the pleasant custom of the undergraduates of Oxford to purchase their doublets and smallclothes, their ales, wines, liquors and later their cigars, "on tick'' (credit). It is an equally venerable custom for Oxford undergraduates to leave their Alma Mater heavily in debt to the merchants of the city...