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...novel. Sensationalism has been shown and any defense, especially in an aggressive way, is presumptuous and entirely out of place. In addition, the college press should not be made the means whereby correspondents who write in good faith can be flatly accused of jealously and personal animosity. It would seem that "after years of experience" the "Graduate" would have learned the fundamental principles of required journalism...
There are very few cases in which Harvard professors are ever accused of ever acting in any but a fair-minded, liberal way. It would seem, however, from an occurrence the other day that a similar statement could not always be applied to the students. One of the instructors recently told his division that he could not meet it until ten minutes after the hour. At ten and a half minutes past, the class left the recitation room and made no answer to the instructor who came in at that moment and said that he was at the disposal...
...words bring before the undergraduates of to-day a picture of noble work, and lead them to look forward with sturdier ambitions. All, however, will not see the paradoxical feature of Harvard's reputation. To many, Harvard may be conservative, but to more the Harvard of to-day would seem to champion the side of new ideas. If Harvard is conservative, the "New Education" shows the liberal side of her conservatism...
...Fullerton has given a good maxim for the novelist. There are, however, a few examples of the base made beautiful by art, that seem to combat with his conclusion. The question he has presented is a nice one, and his treatment of it is, one the whole, to be commended...
Professor Palmer deals with the objection to free choice on account of the immaturity of students as follows: "Many people seem to suppose that at some epoch in the life of a young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit...