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There is a great tendency among the students here at Harvard, to look with a certain amount of derision and contempt upon the man who is neither going to take up one of the regular professions, nor enter business, but intends to pursue a specialty which affords absolutely no chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dillettanteism. | 2/10/1886 | See Source »

University life fosters individual peculiarities. Any large centre of learning will gather about it both the learned and the unlearned, the ordinary and the peculiar. And almost every type of goodness, evil, and indifference will characterize the student life. Every university or college possesses proofs of this. But Harvard is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Poets. | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

The reason of this is, that men confound what they would like to be with what they ought to be. The great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

Several contributors take up the practical questions of education. E. W. Morse, '78 has a thoughtful discussion of College Preparation for Journalism. He holds that the work on the college papers is of slight worth in fitting for a literary life, except that a college editor often forms a taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Advocate. | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

The Conference Committee has now been deliberating for several months on the marking system without drawing any perceptible conclusions therefrom, except that it is well to make haste slowly. The real trouble seems to be that all this time they have been working on the wrong tack. It would be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study vs. Examinations. | 2/8/1886 | See Source »