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Analyzing the preliminary registration figures at American universities this year, several features attract attention. The first is that Columbia will open on Wednesday with an enrollment exceeding 10,000. That breaks all American records, and places the metropolitan university in point of registration in the same class with the largest...
In the second place, you are here to study. That does not mean that you are here to grind; far from it. You are here to study in a way that will train your minds to a discipline which they must acquire before you can make a success of life...
And lastly, make all the friends you can. Whatever Harvard may have been, it is not now a refuge for snobbery and indifference.
To Lampy, then, who should be very proud of his children, and to the author and the artist, the aforesaid children, who are very modest, our Harvard world and the bigger world outside, too, owe a great debt of gratitude (which should be accompanied with a cash reward) for giving...
Whatever can be done in any of these ways to give to intellectual pursuits a higher place in the undergraduate esteem should, of course, be done. But the question is much more than a matter of details. As one of the essayists remarks, "the fundamental consideration is the development of...