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Says President Bartlett of Dartmouth, "We believe in government by the faculty." Coming from President Bartlett, such a statement perhaps is not surprising. In hearing it, one is led to think of all the great tyrants of history, who in their lives-if not in actual words-have said, "We believe in ourselves, and in government by ourselves." Not that we would, in speaking thus, imply that we think there is an exact similarity between the tyrants of early times, and the college faculties of to-day-although times have been when we have had no small reasons...
...real university at Cambridge, and if the purpose of the country as regards gifts is continued, we are bound to be one in a few years. We get more money than any other university, if that is to be taken as an evidence of popular approval. Not that I think money is everything. Sometimes I am told that we are more careful at Cambridge of things intellectual rather than things moral. I am satisfied that there is no better evidence of moral grandeur than that which is shown in intellectual achievements. 'By their fruits ye shall know them...
...will can help us out of our difficulty. If a man, solicited by given motives in a given emergency, may act in various ways; if a new force, springing uncaused into existence, becomes an agent or factor in his choice; will not the consciousness of guilt be explained? I think not. For if the same man in the same circumstances can make various decisions, how does his decision tell us anything about the true, permanent nature of he man? Whence the significance of his choice if, without being other than he is, he might choose differently? If a new force...
...hint at the authorship of the design. As this looks suspicious, the reader will look over the book again, and lo ! on page 106, the young lady playing tennis will be seen to have been deliberately copied, line for line, from last year's " Liber Brunensis." One would think that Yale men, after their last year's experience, would feel particularly sensitive about a case of this kind, especially as it will surely detract from the merits of their book, which is in other respects, unique, handsome, and interesting...
...that he was not conscious of what he did. Suppose, for example, that when the collection-box is passed around, I have only a ten-dollar bill, which I put in sorrowfully rather than appear to give nothing. The gift is not free. But if by some mistake, I think that what I am giving is only one dollar, the gift of the ten is still not free, even if I do not grudge it on discovering my error...