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...which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty than his privilege to express in public his opinion, in case he may by a careful exposition of his own motives perhaps help others to arrive at a clearer view of political affairs...
...therefore, happy is the man who can look forward to that excellence, but alas for him whose ideas are destroyed. The choir sang the following selections: The Son of God goes forth to war; What are these that are arrayed in white robes-Stainer; And the City had no need of the Sun-Whittington...
...freshman class games of two days past have given rise to a question which seems to us, to need some consideration. One may well doubt the advisibality of allowing graduates of other colleges who enter one of the professional schools to take part in freshman class games, particularly when these men have come to Harvard with good college athletic records. It seems hardly fair to the rest of the contestants who have come from preparatory schools. The case in point which occurred during the freshman field sports will bear careful consideration...
...purpose. The answer given was of course sincere, and there seemed, therefore, nothing to do but to submit to the inevitable. Now that another college year has opened, however, it is fitting that the question should again be agitated. The advantages of the desired improvement are too obvious to need even enumeration. its effects could not fail to be beneficial to all concerned, and of course the only possible drawback to the project would be the lack of money for its success. And yet it does seem almost a disgrace that such an obstacle should be so powerful. There certainly...
...President Eliot's address to the students last evening are well worth our attention. It is indeed too often true that college men think only of what the college may do for them, and forget, or at least disregard, their own duties to the college. What we need to do here is to exercise our freedom in a manly direction. After all, it is not athletics nor even endowments and advantages which make the college-but men. Thus it is that the present and the future usefulness and worth of Harvard must be largely of our own making...