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...bequeathed us but little in that department. Leaving the beaten track followed by most Englishmen of position and education, and foregoing the pleasure of rendering into English the works of Homer, he has been content with a translation of Horace's Odes and Epodes. The translation is, as a rule, very literal, and the renderings excellent; the beauty of the work has been marred by an attempt to preserve in the English all the original metres of the Latin...
...civil authorities they be left to them to be dealt with, that in cases of mere disorder in the yard or rooms the penalties be done away with. No one, I think, has noticed that smoking in the yard has become more frequent since the abolition of the rule against it. That the same result would follow in the case of disorder is probable...
...hard for any one so free from care as a College student, to cast aside the pleasant habit of indifference. Without even his own support to provide for, with no one dependent upon him, with few rules the breaking of which will entail any serious penalty, he gets to look at the outside world as something rather amusing, a little vulgar, and not at all connected with himself. There are, of course, the usual number of exceptions to prove the rule. We have, in embryo, doctors who sharply detect disease in the unconscious passer-by, who prefer the attractions...
...important social and literary questions, and would gladly discuss them in a college paper or magazine. It is possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit. is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young...
...trained to self-control in freedom by letting them taste freedom and responsibility within the well-guarded enclosure of college life, while mistakes may be remedied and faults may be cured, where forgiveness is always easy, and repentance never comes too late. Whenever it appears that a college rule or method of general application is persevered in for the sake of the least promising and worthy students, there is good ground to suspect that that rule or method has been outgrown...