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...Harvard. Those are not the examples for a progressive American university to follow. The German university system, with its academic freedom - freedom on the part of the instructors to teach how and as they please; freedom on the part of the students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very far distant when the students of Harvard will be treated as men and not as school-boys, and when the instructors will be relieved from...
Voted, That in the opinion of the directors the increase in the price of board over that of last year is mainly due to the decrease in the membership of the association, rather than to the increase in the cost of provisions...
...over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results...
...about me certain signs of an aesthetic movement. I see certain young men who are, no doubt, sincere; but I can assure them that they are no more than caricatures." As he looked around him he said. "Save me from my disciples!" and then added, "but rather let me, as Wadsworth says, "Turn me from these bold, bad men'." Mr. Wilde spoke very pleasantly of his visit to Harvard, and suggested how finely the statue of a Greek athlete would look standing in our gymnasium, and what an ennobling influence it would have there. He said he would like...
Every dog has his day; rather hard on the poor cur whose day comes on the 29th of February. What a fearful cold day it will be for him this year...