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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I submit to you some ideas on the question of cooperation at Harvard. I know they are not popular at present, but I believe them to be just, and I fear that it will not be long before their truth is proved by practical experience. The essence of cooperation is cooperation, and the secret of success is concentration. Therefore, if cooperation at Harvard is to look for any success at all, all efforts towards it should be concentrated for the success of one experiment in the matter. No harder blow could be struck at the prospects...
...pulling, some calling of hard names, and then the bystanders will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from engaging in brawls. That they are not cowards is well proven by the fact that they submit without flinching to the most severe surgical operations without ever using anaesthetics. They maintain that it is very injurious to health to be nervous, to worry, or to give way to anger...
...exorbitant charges, special meetings, and all that, which anywhere else would call for investigation by the citizens' association, at least. But what do these Harvard men do? Do they hold a mass-meeting, and have speeches and resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward of our efforts. After all my letters to the papers calling for justice and reform in such eloquent and powerful language, after all your own laborious reports...
...seek our standards, not in this man's taste, nor in that man's taste, nor in any man's taste, but simply in a quiet, trustful following of whatever light our own experience has given us. People are so willing, it seems to me, to submit themselves to one great tailor or another great tailor, and try to persuade themselves that all the good taste in the world is summed up in him. But surely this is not the deepest, the truest way of looking at things. Let me illustrate this...
...Greek have tried a similar experiment, and have found it successful. As the German department has at present no head, or rather will have none after August 31, an assistant professor is to take the Freshmen next year. There are several considerations which the writer would most respectfully submit to the authorities with regard to this proposed change...