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...than not the result of an unwarrantable omission on the part of the professor. Secure in his perfect knowledge of the subject, and confident of his ability as a disciplinarian, he neglects to treat his students as human beings and travellers on the same road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless students comes to be regarded as pure callousness...
...hand in the no man's land of science and Industry; he had to overcome difficulties which no one had ever encountered before; he met phenomena which had never been met before and which carried with them the forces of sudden death and destruction. Only those who have similarly trod uncharted lands know the terrible obstacles of discouragement and disappointment which nature places in the way of the explorer...
...memory, and already are places of pilgrimage for his sake. More than one youth in each of our swift college generations as he takes his daily walk, shall be touched by refining and inspiring thoughts as he recalls that he is treading the very path which the poet trod in years gone by; and many a stranger from distant regions of our own country or from distant lands will seek Cambridge for the sake of viewing the localities which Longfellow's Muse has consecrated...
From all that knew his presence. Where he trod...
...occasion when the graduating class distinctly cuts loose from its old associations. These have been endeared through four short years of the happiest kind of living, of preparation. And now Ninety-three of Harvard enters the world to seek its fortunes along the same lines which other classes have trod. Her record here has shown that her members are well fitted to undertake the responsibilities of a broader field of work. That health and prosperity may ever attend this last off-spring of "Fair Harvard," and that she may reflect just praise on her proud alma mater is the wish...