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...evil. And it is to pray for a last chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief purposes of a higher education...
...should be a matter of entire indifference to the College whether a man with means or without attain a higher rank; its function is simply to bring out of students what is mentally valuable; beyond that it should have no concern. But, unfortunately, our College governors seem to take it for granted that, because a man is independent of their assistance, his brains are inconsiderable; it is quite enough to let him pass quickly by, - run down hill, if he choose (and this, it is thought, in all probability he will do); his efforts towards firmness of purpose and self...
...must not be lost sight of, he is the mainstay of the land; but, if he is pecuniarily successful in after life, his children are snubbed in their turn, - they have their innings in the little game of College tag, and out go they: so that College tactics would seem to be directed to the admirable end of preparing men without means for the propagation of the loafing species...
...hardly commend that excess of enthusiasm which led them to forget that undergraduates of other colleges were not necessarily boys, and to be guided in a thing of this kind by the mere ipse dixit of any one. It is always unpleasant to discuss the accidents, as they seem to us, of the origin of these literary contests...
...these columns; how eagerly they are read, and how promptly they are acted upon. But, fully conscious of the responsibility I take upon myself, I cannot refrain longer from pointing out this one-sidedness in the objects of our associations, and suggesting some remedies. That I may not seem to pretend to greater ability and ingenuity than I possess, let me declare at once that the conception of what I am about to present was not wholly original with me. Great men suggested the idea, and great moralists have done much to encourage it. De Quincy has written an essay...