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...think, a good rule for a young writer to follow, not to relate his dreams; for, as a general thing, there is no sort of literary undertaking so easy, so seductive, and so worthless after it is finished. In my own case, however, the rule must be broken for once. My dream came to me under peculiar circumstances. They were so peculiar, indeed, that I believe they give a psychological interest to the dream. With this excuse I shall describe...
...represents Harvard creditably in the line of current comment and light stories, and the Lampoon certainly places us far in advance of other colleges in the matter of humorous writing and illustration. But anyone familiar with college exchanges knows that in the line of serious literary composition, in the sort of work found in the Yale Lit., and Princeton Nassau Lit., Harvard is represented in no way whatever...
...best courses in college are avoided just because the instructors are " hard markers," -avoided, not only by men who are satisfied with a mark of forty or fifty per cent, but by men who aim at, who in many cases must get ninety. As soon as any sort of equality in the marking standard is established, we will not be constantly hearing the complaint that students are too often slaves to their scholarships. Surely under the present state of things, students are not blamable for their slavery. However, were the system of marking more just, more universally definite and stable...
...course, do not necessarily refer to the interior decorations and fixtures. Those are certainly tasty and appropriate, but he must be a very prosy visitor indeed, who climbs that long hill to study fine arts. The real arts of Lasell are of a finer and more wily sort than those which we students at Harvard book upon as "fine arts...
Every boy is not fit to be sent to college, because it is not every one for whom a college education is beneficial. Properly applied, a college training is a sort of polish that adheres only to material of fine grain. Culture does not adorn every nature, and, except with the wealthy, the expensiveness of a college course should plainly indicate an expectation of some substantial return. Money should not be wasted in turning basswood into clock work machinery.- (Educational Monthly...