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...popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...
...have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what Mr. Butler says about our plumbing for the full and free expression among the school children is sound. Sound is his protest against our forgetting the principle that every generation can only climb higher by standing "on the shoulders of its predecessors." But this very surrender to emotionalism, to ignorance, or to mere vanity is proof of a desire to teach not the secret of making a living but the secret...
...truth of the matter is not that we are on the wrong track in education, but that we have gone forward too hastily. Mr. Butler's protest is valid not against the principle but against its excess. Elsewhere on this page we print an account of a new system of examinations at Harvard designed to equip the student for the fullest use of his faculties in the interpretation of what he has learned. This is not a reaction from the generous elective system introduced at Harvard twenty years ago. It is intended rather as a corrective to that system...
What the outcome will be no one can say. Most likely the protest will be ignored by the League. The strategic value to France of the districts is too great to be disregarded, and there are limits even to self-determination. Very likely if the provinces are consulted, they may be persuaded to stay with France after all. But the whole situation illustrates very well, how quickly and completely nations may undergo change, and the small part that grtaitude plays in international relations...
Various obstructions have been removed from the Square at different times by order of the court after a protest from the people. The hay scales and the town pump were removed in 1830. But does this prove that the present edifice is illegal, especially since the Elevated must have received a legal permit to put it there in the first place...