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...What I want to see done away with is the officially organized untruth, which excites my indignation every time I have to carry it into execution; every professor twice a year testifies that dozens of students have been present at his lectures, who, he knows, have never set foot in his room. It has happened repeatedly that students guilelessly presented to me Professor Eck's Pandects for me to sign, thereby admitting that they did not know either Professor Eck or me by sight...
...want to force anybody to hear tedious lectures; I've cut many a lecture myself, and know well enough that hard reading and industry in his own room are in the end more important, perhaps, to a student than hearing university courses. But I cannot persuade myself that the industry is to be found in the case of those who attend no lectures the first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among...
...preach simplicity. Regulations by the government of the university can only tend to destroy the good relations at present existing between faculty and students, while they will be found wholly inadequate to remedy evils here existing in reality far from their source. We are loth to believe that a want of gentlemanliness is so far encouraged at Harvard that the poorer students are compelled by the force of public opinion either to incur expenses beyond their means, or to lose caste among their fellows. It is necessary to the welfare of the university that young men of few resources...
...highest calculation is 'Societies and subscriptions to sports.' A student may join no society and contribute nothing to crews and teams. I have no means of judging how many are found in this category, but that most of them refrain reluctantly - as betraying either their poverty or want of sympathy with their fellows - I do not doubt. Upon those who do contribute to the sports, a variety of motives press with great force and unite with the often newly acquired liberty to spend to make their subscriptions disproportionate to their means. When so many claims in so many branches...
...were very apt to become overtrained by much hard work. Nowadays, however, things are very different, as one can easily judge who happens to watch the crew at table. The men are not stinted at all with regard to the amount they eat, and can have almost anything they want, provided it is not unwholesome, like pastry, candy...