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...warning shall steal upon a man and cast a temporary gloom over his existence. But, after we have been lulled into indifference of the faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes and we are landed, much to our surprise, within dangerous proximity - to special probation. We can think of no reason for this change other than a desire to save much extra work at the office - a laudable desire, to be sure, but the same result might be obtained by abolishing prayers and increasing the number of recitation cuts allowed...
...signs of "religious decadence" at Harvard, and I have never said that I did. Nor do I think that Harvard "is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe...
...Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase of the subject which deserves more attention than it has ever received, and one which possesses the uncommon property of furnishing an argument on each side of the elective question. To those who think that a college education is only for putting on the finishing touches and gilding with belles lettres or polishing off with an essence of dilettanteism, such a tendency must cause the utmost consternation. On the other hand, those who hold that the education obtained here should be of the greatest...
...amount of critical work required of the sophomore class, recently published in your columns. In the first place, to pass by the fact that a critical theme, requiring in its preparation far more time than the descriptive one so strongly advocated, is therefore less desirable to some students, I think that the writer's conception of the office of criticism is utterly erroneous. Critical ability is not merely the ability to "tear down an artistic piece of work;" it is the ability to see what is good and true and lasting in it. Undoubtedly, fault-finding will to some extent...
...only, and finding itself number one at the end of a long series of league contests, declared that it was likewise number one for all the college boating leagues of the country. In regard to the statement that umpires favor larger rather than small colleges in close decisions, we think that a glance at the scores of the past year will convince even the most unreasonable that the larger colleges have not needed such assistance. Dartmouth and Amherst certainly have no reason for complaint on this issue, at least so far as Harvard is concerned, for the scores show that...