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...productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will off-set a lot of the baser stuff of persistent application? The foreshortening of an obligation of four months to a comparatively few hours is only too likely to foster carelessness and a procrastinating habit of mind that will have little opportunity in later life to concentrate on anything, except a method of letting things slide by with...
...standards of broad-mindedness and high morals of the student body of Harvard. Cruelty to animals--as was shown in the treatment of the horse--may have its humorous side but tends to have a degenerating effect on both participants and spectators. Which student group desires our baser characteristics as entrance qualifications to their circle...
...Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
There are three great incentives in this campaign. There is the need of supporting the organization which keeps our military establishment fit; there is the great appeal of alleviating human suffering; and there is the baser but important stimulant to action of the smallness of the solicited contribution. If such appeals fail to pierce the student's armor of indifference, Harvard's future is a sad one. Everyone has at least something to give. The man who cannot sacrifice for such a cause is no man at all. He lacks the essentials of true national spirit. Today is the last...
...intelligent and competent. These concluding articles confirm the impression made by the number as a whole; the Monthly is frankly and unaffectedly literary, alive to recent tendencies and events, but still respectful toward standards other than its editors', and reassuringly free from extremes, poses, and "isms" of the baser sort...