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2. Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect (meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated) from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of college in his sophomore year.
Why is it not wise? Before we can answer that we must know what we mean by wise. Do we mean worldly wisdom, a shrewd perception of the course which will lead to material success? In that sense of the word, such a measurement by themselves, that is by one...
But the word has another meaning--a spiritual as distinguished from a worldly significance. Almost all men, and all men of character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither...
Mr. Wells meaning is not that history has ceased to exist, but that it has grown too large. Its picturesqueness and its glamour have been taken over to the province of the novelist. Both are essential just as the warp and the woof in the weaving of a carpet.
These of us who had the stimulating experience of being members of that much misrepresented group of nine or ten men which informally discussed the problems confronting Harvard in its evolution from the New England college to a cosmopolitan university, learned that the first need of seekers for the truth...