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Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School cheers doting parents afraid that their young Gifteds may injure their precious health by too hard study. In forty years only one Nassovian has died of overstudy. Not a single member of the Faculty has so perished, says the Dean, gibing his brother Dons. In the days before universal athletics the pale and rickety "grind" may have existed. Now the man on the honor list is quite likely to have biceps like "the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture," and one seldom sees a pining professor unless it be in a Pullman, where...
...spirit, this inquiring for the truth with the ideals and convictions that inevitably followed, which when acted upon, really made for that part of our social progress for which Harvard men are, in part, responsible. Shall we now forsake that attitude of mind which has given this university its precious heritage? It is unthinkable...
...special legislative committee. The statistics which they will gather will doubtless show, that in consideration of the 141,000 illiterate in this state, there is some need for such an institution. But it must be remembered that the old liberal arts college and the large endowed university have a precious place in the educational life of America, a place which vocational training does not attempt to fulfill. The fetish of size in education is fatal and the idea that colleges are for all is impossible. Thousands would not know what to do if they had the benefits of expensive higher...
...nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might...
...nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might...