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...permanent now, it will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
What caused F. E. P. '18--I have not looked him up for his sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says...
...library is as yet incomplete but contains most of the best works of English literature, together with the best of foreign literature, history, biography and travel. The room is intended to be a place where those who want to read for the sake of reading may come, leaving the reading room for special college courses to the larger reading rooms...
...Class Memorial Scholarship, is by a large margin the largest scholarship given any Freshman. The dividing of the sum into two scholarships has been advocated, but this, it was thought, would defeat the purpose of the gift, which is meant to be desirable not only for the sake of the money but for the honor that goes with...
Among the pieces of advice gratuitously showered on the undergraduate none is more often repeated than that which urges him to select certain courses, regardless of their intrinsic value in his scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become...