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...saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals and policy, can go elsewhere. And even the most patriotic of Harvard men would admit, (perhaps on second thought), that there are other universities...
...scholarship in a faculty is of no more ultimate importance than the powers of the university football team. By a process of diligent mystification, the learned classes have hood-winked society into believing that such scholarship is really important. With a good memory, a certain amount of industry, a talent for choosing obscure fields and perverse points of view one may become a famous scholar and console oneself in the polemics of the study for one's realized inferiority in other fields. There is no harm in such scholarship; it is a pleasant and, to a certain degree, a necessary...
...means to complete their Harvard course. It is very difficult, however, for a student without any financial resources to continue his education in a privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes from a distance. Yet we should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying...
...intellectual cream of each college generation, he will face a budgetary problem that is ever more acute. The immediate future of the House Plan and the tutorial system must be weighed against the ambition to make Harvard a national university, an educational centre from which no one of talent is barred on financial grounds. Oxford and Cambridge have chosen an expensive educational system; the provincial universities of England have sacrificed that system to make their benefits more universal...
...rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when...