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...sole faculty-government, the oligarchy, is doomed to die sooner or later, just as all purely tyrannical and oligarchic governments have died heretofore. As times and civilization advance, sentiment and liberality of thought also advance. College students are getting to be looked upon, not as brainless, careful boys, but rather as men interested in themselves and others, in their education, and in all that concerns their education. Indeed, there is actually conceded to them a certain degree of intellect, and comprehension, mingled perhaps with a small amount of common sense. In light of these facts, we are even bold enough...
Lost or taken by mistake.-An overcoat of dark blue rough cloth, and rather short. The finder or possessor will oblige by returning to 17 Weld...
...bound to be one in a few years. We get more money than any other university, if that is to be taken as an evidence of popular approval. Not that I think money is everything. Sometimes I am told that we are more careful at Cambridge of things intellectual rather than things moral. I am satisfied that there is no better evidence of moral grandeur than that which is shown in intellectual achievements. 'By their fruits ye shall know them,' is a grand moral declaration; gentlemen, you are the fruits of the university...
...Harvard. During the past five months, the club has not been brought prominently before the notice of the college, although it has been in a flourishing condition. The object of the club is the free discussion of philosophical problems, and for this reason the number of members is necessarily rather small. The consequence is that, although the fortnightly meetings are well attended, are highly interesting to the members themselves, the students at large hear very little about the club, except in connection with its public lectures...
...free; yet we do not necessarily imply that he was reluctant to do it, but only that he was not conscious of what he did. Suppose, for example, that when the collection-box is passed around, I have only a ten-dollar bill, which I put in sorrowfully rather than appear to give nothing. The gift is not free. But if by some mistake, I think that what I am giving is only one dollar, the gift of the ten is still not free, even if I do not grudge it on discovering my error...