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...strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write the words that give it meaning. That vague desire for greatness which seems to whisper of some latent genius; is as yet an unharnessed, a random, undirected urge. The great problem of every young man is to find himself, and college is the most likely place to make the discovery...
...publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness of emptiness in American life which the colleges are falling to fill, and of an incompleteness of development which education is falling to correct; and this dawning consciousness is expressing itself in random shots at things in general...
...moral of these three little fables, selected at random from a large number, is distressingly clear. Cambridge is not, in the summer time, a center of scholarly reflection and philosophic calm. It is on the contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...
...random quotations to seem analytic...
...indiscriminate selection of musical compositions, picked at random without reference to any special grouping or university will be offered by the "Pops" Concert Orchestra tonight in Symphony Hall, beginning at 8.15 o'clock. The program is as follows: 1. Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet 2. Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark 3. Hymn to the Sun from "Iris" Mascagnt 4. Boston City Glee Club 5. Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sihelius 6. The Music Box Liadox 7. Aragonaise from "Le Cid" Massenet 8. Third Movement from the "Pathetic" Symphony Tehaikovsky 9. Prelude to "Lohengria" Wagner 10. Valse, "Espana" Waldteufel 11. Charge of the Hussars Spindler