Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard is not democratic. It has not been for generations, and does not bid to change for generations yet to come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...
...either social or scholastic, it simply does not exist, except in a very few noteworthy cases. The University teas (stiff, unnatural functions that they are) are never largely attended. As for professors, only two or three, in the writer's knowledge, hold regular recep- tions where a student can come, listen to what is said, and answer for once like an original being according to his own thoughts. Some students, fortunate enough to get letters of introduction, may thus meet a professor or two on a little more intimate basis. But surely there is no approach at Harvard...
Among the undergraduate body, the thought of democracy is farcical, Men come to college at the most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object...
...possibilities of sudden development in young Americans. It is only seven years since the 1910 Monthly board was in College. If their writing had then been scrutinized with a view to what the writers would do in such an emergency as that to which the world has come, what would the prophecy have been? The answer is so uncertain that one hesitates to draw any conclusions from the contents of the March number...
...good sense) are not unpleasing. The other verse contributions in the number are of less interest. Mr. Snow's "Episode of Reincarnation" shows some skill in using devices which are almost foredoomed to failure in English metre. With reference to Mr. Auslander's "Maybe in Years to Come," one feels like asking whether the lines about "inarticulate years" and "lovely silences that yearn to music" seem to the author to be an extraordinarily simple greeting...