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...students for the students. His first argument, that it gives an opportunity for training, is, I think, more poetic than sound. It would be just as plausible to advocate war in order to whip a few generals into shape. But it may be I am wrong on this head it may be that the note taking and purveying is a business of great proportions, but I cannot think it quite the institute, or quite such a pervasive system as in suggested. As for his idea of mutual helpfulness between student as is suggested. As for his idea of mutual helpfulness...
...would be wrong to take a book like this either too seriously or too lightly. Perhaps a mute inglorious Milton in hidden away here; but if so, he is well hidden. On the other hand, there is much work here of an interesting and serious character, and a few poems that show real accomplishment. Certainly it is a much better book than any that could have come out of Harvard in this reviewer's day, twenty years...
From the undergraduate point of view, it would seem superficially that the President's remarks had overlooked the broader college influences, outside of the classroom, which he himself would be quick to acknowledge as of almost equal importance, in the aggregate, with instruction itself. Perhaps we are wrong in thinking that the younger men, in respect to physique and character, are already at a disadvantage, and find themselves unable to reap a full harvest in the fields of "interests and activities." It is true that the present century is far slower in developing its youths than the past have been...
...organization of such size as "the klan", can spring up in America, and gain power enough to take the law into its own hands, there must be something wrong with the law. Like the Vigilantes which existed in the days of '49, this organization will only die when the state is strong enough to crush it, and punish all crimes as well...
...every country save. England and New Zealand the traffic goes on the wrong side of the road." This statement is a slight exaggeration, because Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still "keep to the left", although New Brunswick and British Columbia have recently passed laws requiring that all vehicles adopt the right turn. But the English still prefer the old method of traffic regulation, even though they have to learn to drive all over again whenever they "visit the continent" or come to America...