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...interest in the various lines of study, yet the distinction of winning a prize is in itself a perfectly commendable incentive to intellectual effort. It would be well if we had more prize competitions than we do. If that were the case, and the standards were kept high, the problem of securing more general recognition to scholarly attainment, which the Corporation has put before the Faculty, would be much nearer to solution. There would be no necessity for large appropriations of money. The prizes could be of small intrinsic value and still be a strong incentive to active competition, merely...
Your leading article this morning with regard to the misappropriation of the 'varsity sweater states a real problem in our athletic management, and one that is likely to increase as our sports expand. The problem has, however, been long settled in England; and a glance at the method now in vogue at Oxford, for instance, will suggest, I think, a fitting remedy...
...problem is not different from that which confronted Jesus. No man is right, moral or ethical, whose life has not been a sacrifice whereby the world may attain to perfection. The Christian is the man who makes the problem of his life the bearing away of the sin of the world. This is not the denial of life, but the denial of self. The things of life are made sacred by being consecrated to the common good. By sacrifice the life is saved, and made morally whole. Human progress has tracked its every step in the blood of those...
...adult males gives too great voting power: Smith, Em. and Im. 79, 80.- (2) Bossism fostered: J. Strong, Our Country, p. 59.- (3) Venal voting: S. G. Fisher, Alien Degradation of American Character, in Forum, XIV. 611 (Jan. 1893).- (4) Socialistic dangers: J. Strong, Our Country, 143.- (5) Municipal problem made more difficult: J. Jtrong, Our Country, 58.- (b) Economic.- (1) Problem of the unemployed in dull times increased: Publications of the Immigration Restriction League, No. 4, SS 10, 11, and No. 8.- (2) Lowering of wages: Smith, Em. and Im. p. 140.- (3) Lowering the standard of living: Yale...
...selfishness and give himself to the service of others. It showed how in particular the duty came home to Harvard men. In the college, more than anywhere else, there is a vast store of energy, vitality, health and wealth of all things of which the world has need. The problem which consciously or not is decided by each student is whether in the use of these he shall consult his own exclusive advantage, or shall consider that he holds...