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...commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring of honorary degrees faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world, and as a laborer he is worthy of his hire. Why, then, should the teacher burden himself with academic routine and with slavery to adolescence when he has a thousand other avenues open to his talents? Somnia Vana in The Freeman...
Fortunately the New England conscience is possessed only by those of New England blood or subjected to New England training. The sufferers from it are therefore few in number. But these few, spread far and wide throughout the country, will welcome Dr. Riggs's suggestion to shun it and will join in urging all who are afflicted with a New England conscience "to shake it off!" The New York Tribune...
...need for some change. Far too many lose two years finding their way to classes and some go through college without finding it at all. Perhaps Yale's method is the right one or, as is new planned here, a rejuvenated English A. in any case there is a wide opportunity for reform in this direction...
...mechanics, when God knows we see too much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there times when we long to have, (as what gentleman should not?) "at least twenty coats"; to find ourselves in a wide hall choosing a rapier of founding a silver mounted pistol, or to be out on the still wider seas, swinging a cutlass...
Thanking you for this opportunity to correct wide-spread, false impression concerning the Canadian Government's relations with the C. N. R. V. O. WATTS...