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...This method could be profitably carried on in high schools and colleges. Third, the method of investigation, which should be the work of students at Universities. Investigation, by reference to original sources of all kinds, may be made for the purpose of settling disputed points, or for discovery of unknown matter. The great difficulty instructors at Harvard feel in applying the method of investigation is the lack of preparation of the students when entering college. Our preparatory schools aim not to fit students for study at a University, but merely to enable them to pass the entrance examinations. Consequently...
...students and their societies. Every man in the college is a society man, or is being solicited to join some society. It is either Alpha Omega or Omega Alpha. O. A. does not know A. O. and to be a non society man is to be wholly unknown...
...both a Plato and a Persephone down there. Great chaldrons may be seen, presumably filled with some strange liquid or concoction, to judge from the fearful rumbling boiling sound that comes forth. Bones and skeletons of every conceivable kind of animals are there; dark holes and passages, steam from unknown recesses, the clanking of iron, and the roaring of fires are everywhere met with. Indeed, what a place this is ! What a hall it is, with a lower world, our intermediate world, and an upper world, almost a little universe by itself...
...once all day long did these young men speak to their unknown companion, or, as far as she could tell, take any notice of her whatever. They simply pursued their own way, and let her, from her quiet corner, enjoy it all undisturbed...
Without attempting to take up the cudgels in behalf of either the advisory committee on boating or their unknown detractor in the Boston Herald, it seems no more than proper to say a few words about this dispute. To Harvard men it has doubtless seemed unfortunate that it should be given such prominence in the press of Boston. While we fully believe in the dissemination of news, college as well as general, through the medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing...