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...word also to the students. Athletics are good; study is even better; and best of all is the development of the type of character for the lack of which, in an individual, as in a nation, no amount of brilliancy of mind or strength of body will atone. Harvard must do more than produce students: yet, after all, she will fall immeasurably short of her duty and her opportunity unless she produces a great number of true students, of true scholars...
Moreover, let the students remember that in the long run in the field of study judgment must be rendered upon the quantity of first-class work produced in the way of productive scholarship, and that no amount of second-class work can atone for failure in the college to produce this first-class work. A course of study is of little worth if it tends to deaden individual initiative and cramp scholars so that they only work in the ruts worn deep by many predecessors...
American scholarship will be judged, not by the quantity of routine work produced by routine workers, but by, the small amount of first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive...
...number of Presidents from their graduates. His first speech was made in support of one of the candidates for class president during his Freshman year. As an editor of the Advocate he did the same serious, faithful work, which has enabled him in later years to produce a considerable amount of excellent writings. He graduated twenty-second in his class, he won but few academic honors, he delivered no Commencement part, he received no second year or final honors, his only honorable mention was in Natural History, and yet, three years after his graduation, he had published...
Although it is the popular opinion that Arabia is largely a desert, there is on the contrary a large amount of arable land, which can be successfully developed if the Arabians are given proper opportunities. They have always been sailors and ship-builders, and in this age of commerce their experience should give them success in this field...