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...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...
...Then a three mile race is altogether too great a strain to put upon college athletes, most of whom are under twenty-one years of age. There are probably few men in the University who are physically able to enter such a race without the danger of doing themselves serious harm...
...extended to men who wished to specialize were so abused that it brought the whole class into suspicion. This is what the Dean says has been done away with, and the change is a gratifying one. Every action that is taken to discourage men from entering college without any serious intention of getting an education, but simply for the pleasure that is to be gained from a thoughtless college life, tends to raise the standard of work and to add to the reputation of the University...
...Lawrence Scientific School within recent years as regards both equipment and enrolment is a familiar fact to most Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...
...better influence is exerted on character in smaller colleges: Charles J. Bonaparte, A Serious Question, in Harvard Graduates' Magazine, I, 350 (April, 1893)-(a) Through the interaction of personalities: Editorial in Harvard Advocate, LX, current number (January, 1896).- (1) Between student and instructor.- (2) Between fellow-students.- (b) Through greater religious influence.- (c) Through more influences fostering ambition.- (d) Through college spirit; Harvard Indifference, in Harvard Advocate, LX, 97 et seq. (December 19, 1895). (1) Unity.- (2) Enthusiasm...