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...occasions offer to undergraduates more opportunities for serious thought than the filling out of their list of courses at the beginning of the College year. A course of study, which in many institutions is wholly or in part determined and prescribed by their officers, is here worked out by each individual student in accordance with his tastes and aims. This almost unqualified freedom of choice, which is peculiarly Harvard's has often been criticised by those who doubt the ability of the average undergraduate to think intelligently for himself. They can no doubt, cite actual cases of misdirected energies...
...comes to realize his true position in the University and to come into close touch with his classmates. A few men err in devoting themselves half-heartedly to any interest for which they feel a passing fancy, but they are in the minority. We are confident that a serious application to some interest outside, but not to the exclusion of his studies, will make any man's college career more beneficial and more satisfactory to look back upon...
...light work in the morning, but in the afternoon went fully five miles, and showed some improvement over their recent work. Lunt is fast recovering and went out in a pair-oared barge with Amberg today. Word was received today that Morgan's injury is not so serious as anticipated, and he is expected to be about again by Saturday...
...leading article of the current Monthly is a serious and thoughtful essay on "Whistler and the Multitude" by L. Simonson. The author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics...
...serious effort in this number for something large and true is Mr. Clark King's "Review of the Pen and Brush Club Exhibition." Such a review, whatever its faults, adds dignity to the magazine...