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...even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated; and there are hundreds of men among us now, who, fully impressed with the sense of their social importance and financial security, are determined to uphold their position in a manner that would be acknowledged by the most exacting to be truly gentlemanly...
...with a carefully selected set of prescribed studies, and requiring of the student at least an hour's work in the gymnasium daily. This would insure a clear mind, and would furnish the student with all the muscular development necessary to the undertaking of such a colossal task. Even old Hercules himself would have recoiled if Eurystheus had stepped up with a pleasant, yet not unmeaning smile, and requested him as a thirteenth toil to write a congratulatory letter of eight pages to his cousin, who had just succeeded in obtaining a situation in a "Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods" store...
...peculiar nature of that class. The system employed a year ago was generally recognized as a decided step towards open elections, in the best sense of the term, and as such was heartily welcomed by Harvard men. Yet this system contains much of the evil that existed in the old system of former classes, without catching much of the justice and tone of an open election. Any instance of its normal workings will show this...
...would I advance the idea that open elections secure perfection in representation; for that desirable object has never been secured, I believe, except where the representatives equal or outnumber the represented. But I do hold it as easily demonstrable, that all the evils of open election exist in the old society system, while its virtues are, for the most part, there unknown...
...time; and we look to the able and thinking undergraduates to come forward now, and whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive a lion's share of the harvest...