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...adopted in the main our constitution; but had the wisdom to make certain changes therein. For instance, the president of the republic may restrict his veto to different items of an appropriation bill, instead of being forced, as with us, to accept that which is bad for the sake of what is good, or reject that which is good because the bad predominates...
...Industries "has sown broadcast throughout the college copies of the constitution of the society and of the proceedings at the remarkable meeting where the present organization was founded." These pamphlets will, however, the Crimson thinks, do little harm to the students, as few will read them, but for the sake of the few who have the curiosity to read them, it is suggested that some of our instructors in political economy or history step forward and expose the fallacies contained in these pamphlets. That there is, however, any danger to be apprehended from these pamphlets we doubt...
...world. At this stage men tend to become either sentimental or defiant; that is, either the disappointed man retires into himself to find in his own emotional culture what the world refuses to let him find elsewhere, or else one makes a boast of his independence for its own sake, and regards his life as a continual warfare against the wicked world that tries to crush him. The sentimental man is a subjective poet, or an aesthete, or a mystic...
...illustrated rival, the Spectator, has gained a high character from its illustrations, which are excellent, but there is still much to be desired in its editorial columns. A recent article entitled "Magoshville" was capital, and we hope for more from the same writer. We wish, for its own sake, that the Spectator would frankly say whether or not it is an undergraduate publication, for rumors are floating about that it is not, and we are forced to believe they have good foundation...
...Indeed, the spirit of work for work's sake has permeated every department of the college, and it is becoming evident that Harvard is rapidly acquiring many of the characteristics of German universities, minus their barbarities and vices...