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...task of vocational guidance is at our door. Perhaps no greater work ever confronted a university than that of frankly and consciously organizing its machinery and methods for developing and molding the rich talent of its students and directing it into those branches of public and private service where sober judgment, trained thinking, moderation and capacity for intelligent leadership are essential. This is a service to the students incidentally and to democracy fundamentally...
...poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
Lifo comments editorially on the diary of the late Mr. Charles Francis Adams, quoting: "I have tried Boston socially on all sides; I have summered it and I have wintered it; tried it drunk, and tried it sober; and drunk or sober there's nothing in it save Boston." The paper continues on its own responsibility...
...called "remote and imperfectly civilized places" are more active here proportionately than New Englanders, and since Boston's best profit as much from association with the "imperfectly civilized" as the latter profit from Back Bay's chill influence, some good in Harvard is not derived from Boston, drunk or sober...
...plainly evident that the weight of student opinion is against compulsion? Naturally, if a vote were taken, most of those who are members will murmur indifferently "Yes," while those who are non-members will roar, as one man, "No!" Moreover, there are more non-members than members. Any "sober, thinking, mathematician" can work out a victory for the Non-Union party. Is the vote just or unjust, wise or unwise? Well--it is the voice of democracy--Enough! Is not the Union the touchstone of democracy? If so, to be consistent it must abide by the decision of the majority...