Word: buttings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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But such men are few. Most of us are not particularly earnest, even in the pursuit of pleasure. By the aid of an "advanced civilization," the "culture of the nineteenth century," etc., we have, curiously enough, just reached that position of dignified indifference which the American Indian long ago attained...
In regard to Germany "every one ought to know that the foundation of German scholarship is laid, not in the universities, but in the Gymnasien. At these institutions attendance is rigidly required." At all the universities a few only are studious; a large portion of the students take more interest...
We can learn something in this respect from our friends of the smaller colleges. The senior in shiny black who takes life so very hard, and is so very pedantic, is not, to be sure, so dashing and cultivated a character as his contemporaries at Harvard and Yale, but he...
But what we need at Harvard is a deeper appreciation of the fact that college is but a preparatory school, after all; that before very long we shall be placed in a position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of...
But if the repetition of a truth is ever excusable, it certainly is when many of the surroundings have a tendency to bury it in forgetfulness or disregard, as they have in the ordinary life of the college student. M. C. H.