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...style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while, but it seems to us that the university might profit to no small extent by acting on the suggestion. Who can tell how far an expedient of this sort might help us in winning a victory...
...Harvard was founded by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and first endowed by an educated son of pious London tradespeople. When I had read these Harvard wills I asked myself how closely the college is bound - after 250 years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers...
...find in a recent exchange the introduction of a new sort of championship. Prizes are offered as follows: $10 for the best editorial from '87 editors; $10 for the best literary article contributed during the year '85-'86; $5 for the best poem contributed during the year '85-'86." The first thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry...
...good looks, rapidity of living, and number and size and variety of bull-pups. All such are specialists. Not one of them is getting that for which he came to college, or that at least for which he ought to have come. Their specialism is of the most condemnable sort, and as specialists they themselves are to be most mercifully pitied...
...pitable specialist doubtless surprises many. And yet a little thought must show the reader how much the grind should be pitied. All study, and that on only two or three subjects and on only their limited class-room phases, no social intercourse, no general reading, no recreation of any sort for mind or body, are things that are not very likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some of course, but read also...