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...many months ago, being asked to review the Advocate, I took the occasion to inquire why it is that so many college literary periodicals are pale and bloodless things, and expressed the opinion that the Advocate suffered from not being edited and written for the sake of its readers. My contention was that the magazine was too often a collection of themes written for the composition courses and later embalmed in print...
...training two thousand men well. On them she can put the stamp of honor and all that makes a man. An Honor System can not stand the strain of numbers. Our Honor System is the backbone of Virginia. Let us think well before we dare sacrifice quality for the sake of quantity. College Topics, University...
Creditable as is the record of the Appointment Office to date, there is great opportunity for a more complete utilization of its facilities by Harvard men, especially members of the graduating class. For his own sake every man who is looking for a job should avail himself of the privilege of registering at the office. Inasmuch as the Alumni Association keeps in touch with the graduates who held positions of responsibility it is able to place applicants under conditions that promise advancement and success. The office is constantly endeavoring to broaden its scope and to extend its facilities; Harvard...
...becoming reconciled to it, and the number of those who are dangerous to the government is decreasing rapidly with time. Secondly, there are the old men who earnestly believe the monarchy to be the better form of government, and desire to see the emperor restored not for their own sake, but for the country's. But this party is becoming weaker with time...
...central purpose of the plan is to get certain great books, or parts of great books, read for their own sake--not read about, or lectured about, or crammed for the information that is in them. No body, to be sure, is forbidded to take a course which includes the reading of the Bible, or Shakspere, or the two required authors, if he wants to read them in that way. But the thing which is really offered is exactly the thing for which there has been a persistent demand of late--the opportunity to read independently of courses...