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...erection of the new bridge by insisting that it must have a draw. Now a draw is an expensive and unornamental luxury, but if the War Department is disposed to be arbitrary in the matter, then let us have a bridge with a draw, provided only that it be wide, strong, and reasonably artistic. The old wooden relic has been too long an eyesore in its attractive surroundings, a menace to the lives of the many who are forced to use it, and an obstruction to traffic...
...they had not been given such wide circulation we would regard these utterances as humorous; but so far as they may prejudice against Harvard the minds of unknowing persons they are altogether serious. In this community it is not necessary to explain the error of Mr. Chapman's attitude; the aims and methods of President Eliot and the Corporation stand above such reactionary attacks. Harvard men do not care whether their University has a few students more or less than any other institution in the land, except that large numbers offer large means for spreading and deepening Harvard influence...
Francis Barton Gummere, a delegate from Haverford College; a man of letters with a command of literature profound and wide; delightful writer on the origin of English poetry, whose love of song has made the history of song more lovely...
...individual student ought clearly to be developed so far as possible, both in his strong and in his weak points, for the college ought to produce, not defective specialists, but men intellectually well-rounded, of wide sympathies, and unfettered judgement. At the same time they ought to be trained to hard and accurate thought, and this will not come merely by surveying the elementary principles of many objects. It requires a mastery of something, acquired by continuous application. Every student ought to know in some subject what the ultimate sources of opinion are, and how they are handled by those...
...teachers "to do their best" made a deep impression on me. I asked myself: What can I do to live up to the demand of the Senior who wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that...