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...energy feel it his duty to oppose in every possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college...
...Winter Meetings have been a great success, - greater than at any time during our memory. There was a great deal of rivalry and spirit displayed at all three meetings; and it is safe to say that what-usually is deemed a bore by the blase upperclassman who "has seen it all before," was interesting and exciting even to his wearied palate. The last meeting especially, was contrary to expectation in many respects, the best of all three; the flying rings, horizontal bar and tumbling were all so excellent as to call forth the excited applause of the oldest spectator...
...country than in Harvard College. Her ablest professors, with lectures which would be read with interest throughout the world, cannot fill a moderately sized hall in Cambridge." The art of writing college songs, he thinks, has been lost, none of lasting merit having been written for years. The blase Harvard man receives his usual castigation. Cambridge society is also touched up: "It seems to be the inevitable fate of colleges to have a great many rather passe society belles in their neighborhood, and Harvard fellows think they are extremely well, or rather ill favored in this respect," He thinks that...
...surprised that we speak in this way, for some have sought to turn over the leaves of this book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
...student in such cases is as a matter of course very marked. It must be admitted, we think, that here the power of perseverance comes most into play in insuring continued success. The old story of undue precocity partly explains the phenomenon. The gradual oncoming of a certain blase spirit, resulting from the weariness of overforced mental activity, is remarkable in many cases. With some, college is the limit of mental growth; with many, but the beginning. There are many consolations for the ambitious but temporarily unsuccessful in all these facts of our daily observation, as well...