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...Oscar Wilde states that Niagara Falls are artistically correct, so they will not have to be reconstructed, and you need not be afraid of showing bad taste if you admire them. - [Post...
...class, are subjected to and suffer more extortion than any other part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their own initiative that relief and reform can be secured. Cooperative schemes anywhere are doubtful undertakings, doubly so in college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better...
...been either that some member of the faculty deliver lectures to undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice...
...friend of Lake Forest (Ill.) University says that institution is trying to become the Yale or Harvard of the West, and is now "in the condition of a great ship with all her sails spread and the sailors at their posts, but remaining still for need of wind." This leads the wicked Graphic to comment: "This is the first case recorded in which a fresh-water college has remained still for lack of wind...
...possibly there are or soon will be better uses to which to apply the liberal endowments of her benefactors than even the finest and most satisfactory buildings. As soon as the new law school, the medical school and the physical laboratory shall have been completed, will Harvard have a need for further buildings by any means so pressing as for an increase in the number of and better endowments for her teaching force? When the college has an annual deficit of $20,000 or $30,000, and in consequence thereof is compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction...