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...This spirit is commendable, because it shows a desire to show to the college at large as much satisfaction as possible, Foot-ball has a pretty hard blow to recover from here at Harvard, and only extreme care in choosing for next year's eleven a captain who is sure to do good work and at the same time to inspire the confidence of his men, and of the college at large, can secure for the crimson any possibility of a successful record. For these reasons, then, we believe that a mistake has been made in leaving the election...
...fine, the custom is not only silly; it is unwise. I venture the assertion, based upon some knowledge of what I am talking about, that the most ardent imitators (who are always at a respectful distance) of English Society manners, are the ones sure to be most hopelessly left on application for entree to social life in England. In England the flattery of imitation is left to serving people; when it spreads to other classes, it becomes the subserviency of fools. Such is the tacit English verdict at all events...
...discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like our own. And if we investigate general tendencies instead of individual promise, we fail to find any near prospect of a return of the lost spirit of creativeness and spontaneity. In America, on the other hand, though to be sure no one singer seems ready to catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character seems likely to favor the growth of a new school of poetry that may in the near future take rank with the best of England's. We are not giving our best...
This parting utterance from the President will not be without its effect. In fact, there is a growing tendency here to coincide with his views. This is especially the case when it is considered that after all the college is not getting along so badly. To be sure the present freshman class is unduly small, but that has been accounted for in more ways than one. In general, then, it may be said Yale is prosperous, turns out creditable graduates, and maintains its usual high standard...
...prominent among them is the lack of any central power to direct the course and guard the interests, not of this or of that department, but of the university in all its departments. What is needed is organization. Chaos may be full of energies, but those energies are pretty sure to be ill-directed and ineffectual. That so great an institution should be ruled by an active energetic central board would seem to be a self-evident proposition. The point we would make against the corporation as now constituted is not that it contains too many ministers, or that...