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...query naturally arises, "How much have I accomplished?" The amount of work done may be estimated by one who has pursued a certain course of study with some particular object or profession in view, but to the average student, who has been to college merely for the sake of "getting an education," the question is a hard one to answer. Because we have taken a large number of courses in different subjects, does not follow that our time has been wasted, nor that the student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education...
...Harvard. That class spirit will ever entirely disappear from American colleges as now organized is impossible, if it were desirable; but that it should be carried to such extremes as we have all seen of late is greatly to be deplored, if for no other reason than for the sake of the good name and reputation of our colleges and college influence with the impartial public...
Yale College seems to be running the government of the Sandwich Islands. Two judges of the Supreme Court, the superintendent of schools, the attorney general and some minor officers are graduates of the New Haven institution. It's to be hoped, for the sake of the islands, that these Yale men behave better than they did at college. If not, Honolulu howls...
About every Saturday afternoon a small band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...Beth's sake, and for thine, son, who hast shown