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...with eyes, and why it has not been apparent to our crews is the inquiry on the lips of every graduate All this has filled me with disgust. This disgust is so intense that it rather amuses me to have a letter of mine on the subject misunderstood. I fancied that I felt so strongly that I could write what I felt...
...have made this hasty review in order to show that the College Conferences have in past years been of value. In approaching the point of our editorial we fear that we shall be misunderstood. We maintain that the series of lectures given this year is not of the nature that is demanded by the College Conferences. We think that the present course should have been given by itself, and not have forced out the regular Conference series, which we have missed this year particularly, during the present discussion of questions of college policy. The present course is very valuable...
...misstatements of newspaper reporters and other jealous persons, is shown to be false by this excellent article. We hope that the article may be read by as many people as possible and that it may be scattered widely in those parts of the country where Harvard is misunderstood...
...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...