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...Mutual wonder, mutual stare...
...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...
...opinions of the college, and so they do to a certain extent; but too many of them exert an influence only over the few who are like themselves, and when they find that they have no power over the know-nothing element they are inclined to form a mutual-admiration society for the exchange of their valuable opinions...
...intelligence that money given in so-called scholarships is not a charity. The arguments of "T." on this point are somewhat plausible, but they seem to us unsound. We cannot see how the assistance given by the founders of scholarships to the holders of them can be called "a mutual helping toward a common end" any more than any other form of charity...
...beneficent influences of education. "We have means," say they, "you have the natural endowments; together we can accomplish what we have most at heart, singly we must all fail." Is assistance given in this spirit and with this intent an alms? Most decidedly, No! It is rather a mutual helping toward a common end. Or, on the part of the donors, it was at most a loan, not repayable to the lenders, - they do not want it again, - but to the cause whose friends and representatives they were, whose interests they had most at heart, and which they believed they...