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...Dartmouth on the elective system of Harvard: For a man with strong talents for one particular science or art, or for him who has mapped in detail his life for years to come, and can call to his assistance the ablest advice in making his selections of studies, the Harvard elective system offers a premium for laziness, and a position among a large and noted alumni at almost no small exertion...
...Author of Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representatives "which was adopted verbatim by more than forty towns. He was one of the committee of Naval Affairs who drew up the rules and regulations which are the basis of our present naval code, and was the ablest advocate of the Declaration of Independence during the three days debate in congress. He was supposed to have greatly hastened business by the unparalleled oratorical outburst of; "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my heart and my hand to this vote...
...expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions, but take service with the great moneyed corporations. There is, in fact, in our time an immense and most unfortunate diversion of the talent of the country away from the administrative service of the government, mainly owing to the smallness...
Edmund L. Cushing, one of New Hampshire's ablest lawyers, and formerly judge of the Supreme Court, died at Charlestown Sunday. He graduated at Harvard and was admitted to the bar in 1835, and was a member of the legislature from...
...professors. A man of ability who gives up his business or profession for a professor's chair is often called upon to make a great sacrifice, which is more than should be expected of him. The meagerness of the average professor's salary often compels some of our ablest instructors to give their best talents to writing elementary text-books, and leaves no time or opportunity for scientific research and inquiry. The results of this are seen at every American college. The time which should be occupied by our old and able professors in individual research and higher instruction...