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...fact worthy of note, in these days when the need for college graduates in our industrial life is so often emphasized, that about a fourth of the men in each class that is graduated from Harvard College enter upon a business career. For these men, as well as for the other members of the class, it seems to us that it would be a good plan to invite some man prominent in industry to speak to the Seniors on the demands of the business world on college men today--to tell them what they can do by their own power...
There is little need to urge the fitness of the Union for such a memorial. It is firmly established as an important factor in undergraduate life. There is less need to urge a hearty response to any call for subscriptions which may be made. Every man in the University should be glad to do his small part toward bringing future classes into closer touch with the memory of a man who gave to Harvard the best years of a singularly valuable life, and who won the love as well as the respect of countless undergraduates...
...papers deal with undergraduate interests: Mr. Spencer Ervin's contribution to the department of "Varied Outlooks," and Mr. A. Whitman's clever and engagingly written analysis of the would-be "brilliant amateur." Mr. Ervin's discussion is well balanced and convincing, and reaches the wholesome conclusion that "what we need is more curiosity to see what the man is like and more willingness to help him along if we like him; a greater interest in questions, in questions to see what they mean, and in men to see what they...
...have a live interest in the people and affairs of that world. This has been attained by many writers at various times, but it is prevalent in the Iliad through all the ordinary acts of life. Thus given this fiery intensity of imagination and Homeric style of expression we need not be surprised at the extraordinary greatness of the Iliad...
...honor which should be paid for, if not bought, by a certain amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this sort of mistake is made many times each year. We refer especially to the smaller clubs and societies with no particular prestige to insure their continuance...