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...true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will be boys, of course." The question then resolves itself into a question...
...circles. He takes for his subject, "The Case of the Educated Un-employed," It is impossible to give here any of his ideas. But the address is worth reading to any man who feels, in trying to choose his profession, as if he were about to embark on an unknown sea. The language is simple. The ideas are easy of comprehension. If they could be read and digested by all college men, the next generation will find fewer educated men in want. The number of men to-day, who, with all the training of a university routine, could...
...country the spirit of conservatism is deeply set, the desire to make bold strides, to advance new ideas, almost nil; but in the west where the people are extremely energetic and unsurpassedly ready for change at least, and for improvement, where improvement is possible, all conservatism is quite unknown. And so we in the east study with interest what the west undertakes, and accomplishes, whether it be in politics, art, science, literature, or journalism. The few paragraphs following will be devoted to western journalism, and especially to western college journalism...
John C. Wetherbee, Harvard '87, and Prof. of Law at Boston University, for unknown reasons committed suicide yesterday, by taking poison. - Yale News...
...history we find few prominent characters; for the vast majority of men the law of life is oblivion. We belong to the unknown, the unrecorded masses and one epitaph would do for all. This is one great law of man. A second is that the human race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again...