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Another Harvard man who is writing for the Century magazine at present is Mr. Robert Grant, '73. Mr. Grant is best known as the author of "Little Tin Gods-on-wheels; or, Society in our Modern Athens," which first appeared in the Lampoon. This little book, which has probably been read by all Harvard men, of late years, has met with remarkable success, due no doubt very much to the illustrations by Mr. Atwood as well as to the "trilogy" itself. Almost nine thousand copies of the book have been sold and the demand still continues. It is a strange...
...name among the fellows being "The House," derived from its Latin name Aedes Christi. This college is renowned for the statesmen it has sent forth upon their career. Among the older graduates are such names as Godolphin, Bolingbroke, Mansfield, Locke, Ben Johnson and Sir Philip Sydney, while the modern names of Peel, Canning and Gladstone keep up the reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish oak and armorial bearings is the finest in the world, Westminister Hall in London excepted. Many celebrated pictures hang upon the walls by Lely, Kneller and Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Keble is the most modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...
...closing my last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe...
...triumphant movements. And the sentiment is true, and has never been wholly defeated, and has shown its power even in defeat. We have not won our political battles, we have not carried our main points, we have not stopped our adversaries' advance, we have not marched victoriously with the modern world; but we have told silently upon the mind of the country, we have prepared currents of feeling which sap our adversaries' position when it seems gained, we have kept up our communications with the future." Such has been the story of Harvard's past; what of her future...