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...mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them by sumptuary regulations I cannot say. Every parent, however, can forbid his son to join them, and may be sure that he will save not only the fees but contingent expenses to an indefinite amount...
...enrolls 450 members. In 1883 a similar association was formed in Chicago of Western alumnae; its present membership being eighty. Branch organizations have been established in all the leading cities East and West, where local meetings are held in addition to the annual meetings of the parent organizations. It is believed that these two societies fairly represent the aims of the college women of this country...
Accordingly, Harvard "offers greater and better facilities for study, and we can blame only human nature, if parent, guardians and ambitious young men go where they can get the most for their time and money...
...sooner or later. All this proves nothing as to Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit of the apron-strings. With an exultant sense of freedom he will plunge into the wildest dissipation...
...general idea men of other colleges have of Harvard, is that it is a place where no man should go unless he is abundantly supplied with cash, or has a fond and wealthy parent not too careful in examining his son's accounts, and that with this condition favorable, Harvard is a good place for a man to have a good time, and to see something of the world, but that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just...