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...There is need of fresh sponges in the bowling alleys...
...Columbia Spectator says of the Harvard Conference Committee: "The experiment will be watched with a great deal of interest by the college world, any arrangement which exhibits such confidence in the students, and places such privileges in their hands, ought to succeed. The need of co-operation and a better understanding between faculty and students has long been felt in our colleges, and this new scheme certainly appears to supply the desideratum. May the perfect success of the new departure reward Harvard's progressive spirit, and the consideration which she shows her students by imposing such responsibilities upon them...
...pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required...
...talk of "narrowing down our models" when objection is made to the imitation of England's institutions. We need no broader or more liberal copy than the true story of Americanism. As for those who find "the dress of Englishmen more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own," let them preserve, and "try to copy after them in these respects." I do not imagine, however, that "our university men" will give their influence in that direction, and I believe the CRIMSON teaches, not that we are to follow what is American because it is American, but because...
...certainly has a good deal of meaning. It is also gratifying to us to turn to the reports of the library for different years and find how largely the library is used by college men and how each year has shown an extension of this use. We hardly need to expatiate on the value of a library to college students, nor do we need to declare what an impetus a large collection of books must give to the intellectual life of any institution of learning. It is enough to say that whoever neglects to use these books gets from...