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...sight on the next without the exchange of a common greeting or the slightest act of recognition. To the aspersions "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbery" we are not inclined to accredit a greater basis in fact than to the myriad of similar slanders made against every university by shallow phrase-makers with more time than ideas at their disposal. But it ought to be our care that not a single instance of behavior should occur in our midst to act as an exception to the rule which should need no proving: that courtesy no less than intelligence is a part...
...Wyoming last year, and procured enough evidence to warrant a consideration of these later views, although he made a very short examination of the valley. He found ample evidence of fluvial deposits and cross bedding which seem to point to the conclusion that the whole valley was once a shallow lake or flood plain, and not a deep permanent body of water...
...University crew rowed in the same order yesterday as on Wednesday. They used the new shell for the second time and it proved very satisfactory. It was built by Davy on very much the same lines as last year's shell, having the same fine bow and wide shallow stern. The keel is a half-inch deeper and consequently the boat is even stiffer than last year's shell of the same model...
...accordingly a mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory or history is bad. These pleasing changes, being mechanically caused, are mere illusions, and the pleasure we can take in them is shallow. Photographs should aim at being true, but there is no limit to the beauty and interest which photographs may have, in the same way in which real people and things may have beauty...
...great danger in this gospel of emotion is that we shall mistake sentimentality for true feeling. Sentiment is always reserved and unconscious; sentimentalism is self-conscious and shallow, with an eye only for the picturesque. Emotion must not be overdone, but without it our lives would be cold and spiritless...