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...senior year that we have spent a great many hours to no purpose. We have heard it said that only freshmen attend these lectures. If so, even they go in remarkably small numbers and at long intervals, when we consider how attractive the opportunity is. With a programme which seldom repeats itself, and with such a list of lecturers, it is a mystery to us why they do not command more universal attention...
Notwithstanding his great age, the late Dr. Pusey took a leading part, until recently, in all affairs concerning Oxford University. His venerable figure, with the black skull-cap he invariably wore, was seldom missing from the meetings of the council...
...Western people, have an idea that it is impossible for any man unless he has unlimited means to send his sons to Harvard. But "there is no doubt a moneyed atmosphere there, but there is underneath that a stratum of air which a visitor never breathes, which Boston people seldom know of. . . In the first place it is not true that every Harvard student is a rich man, or that to obtain a degree riches are necessary. Yet it is surprising to find how strong the impression is outside the college walls that it is impossible for a poor...
Another kind of work of an altogether different character occupies the spare time of many students, viz., literary labor. The least profitable and the least pursued is newspaper work. The college papers are seldom run on a money-making basis. The work which brings the most money into the student's pocket is the writing of special articles and special correspondence for the leading papers of Boston, New York, Chicago, in fact of nearly every city in the country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News...
...nations, we have been obliged to remain in utter ignorance in respect to most other departments of literature." And in another place he indicates again the reaction that was going on during the early portion of this century against the frigid classicism of the preceding century. He says: "We seldom style the moon Diana, even in our verses; have dispensed with the society of Cupid; and never think of asking inspiration from Apollo or the Muses...