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...learning. The strength of our tradition and our association with all that is best and greatest in American thought and and letters is given due note but the wealth and energy of the west as expressed in Chicago University is also recognized. The editorial matter ends with a paragraph on the schedule of the H. A. A. for the next half year...
...College Kodaks with one exception are the usual collection of more or less consciously awkward literary poses. The exception will be recognized as clever. It borders on good morals - but to quote the paragraph in question one may know perfectly well what that means and still not be able easily to define it. It is the best expression of the risque spirit which has been periodically showing up in the Advocate since last year, that has yet appeared...
...such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought. In general, this kind of writing demands a power which very few college men possess, and too often lures men beyond their depth...
...From the paragraph it is apparent that chance and wise administration, especially on the part of President Eliot have combined to give Harvard the advantages of both types of university. The success of the experiment the gains of the present year assure beyond doubt, for we have great professional schools deriving the advantages of city environment, and at the same time closely united with one of the largest undergraduate schools of arts in the world, this school or college being surrounded by almost ideal conditions...
...dispute has unfortunately taken the controversy is interesting as indicative of the keen philisophical spirit prevalent in America. Philosophers as such are apt to be thought of as existing in a state of unprejudiced calm and guided by a reason which hardly would admit of enthusiasm. The following spirited paragraph in Professor Royce's critique, which is said to have been the principal cause of the controversy, suggests, however, that philosophers may become very much interested...