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...Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole end of his study...
...systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory. It is therefore not only the age of the Harvard freshman, but too often his poor mental equipment which must be deplored...
...time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring out the various music of Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric, and moved brilliantly along over the surface of the poet's intention. Often, indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply to the spirit. In general Mr. Tree treated the text with respect and with artistic skill...
...side of college life but the devotion to athletics in one form or another, of which he has constant evidence. The real intellectual work which is being done, he cannot see, and the importance attaching to it he is bound to underestimate if he does not, as is too often the case, overlook it entirely. The result is lamentable. At his most susceptible age, the age at which he is most imitative, all the influences of example seem to be in favor of neglect of mental development for physical. The boy naturally hopes for a successful college career...
...harmful influence thus exerted by the college, ultimately reacts on the college. The freshman classes enter with very strong athletic propensities, and too often with correspondingly weak interest in intellectual pursuits. It becomes the work of the college not to develop right ideals, but to cultivate them; not to broaden the field in which mental activity has to play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion...