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...ably handled, and, as a practical question interesting to our University, conclusively settled by President Eliot in his reply to "T. W. H." in the Nation of March 6th. Yet one idea has protruded itself in the discussion of this question whose influence seems to me most pernicious: I refer to the idea that these scholarships are charities and their acquisition a cause of humiliation. This notion was pressed by "T. W. H.," but I should have considered it unworthy of notice had not an editorial in the last Crimson and an article in the last Advocate indorsed this view...
...with the greatest gratification maintained against many ignorant or prejudiced attacks, that wealth, though an advantage, was no sure stepping-stone to favor at Harvard, and that a lack of it is no hindrance to preference and position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most unsparingly denounced...
...three miles away; I will not go where there is a musical instrument (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and the rules of the house must prohibit duns, pedlers, subscription agents, editors, and, in short, everybody. I don't think I exact too much; at least my instructors (to whom I refer) never thought me much too exact at recitations...
...frequent interchange of courtesies between the Advocate and the Crimson, and the respect, in spite of occasional differences of opinion, which each has entertained for the other, we were much surprised at the tone of a recent editorial in our esteemed contemporary. The fiery and excited effusion we refer to was written ostensibly to show the condition of the boat-clubs, but in point of fact to relieve some one who was smarting under imaginary injuries of his pent-up feelings. The pettiness and flippancy of the Advocate's criticism do not need comment; neither is it our intention...
...returned to the library he is notified, and the book is reserved for him. This privilege is not allowed him in the case of novels, on what ground we cannot conceive, unless it be that novels are not worth reserving; and it is to this restriction that we refer. The idea that novels are not as valuable as other works is certainly erroneous, for some of our greatest scholars advise, and themselves practise, constant novel-reading. But apart from its literary value, a novel may be as necessary to a student as the dryest text-book in writing a theme...