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...public schools.' Such a requirement of the constitution comes with peculiar force upon the chief magistrate of the city in which Harvard University is located, I am able to say that during my several terms of office it has been my pleasure, as well as my duty, to conform to so agreeable a feature of our fundamental law. The calls of the university, from time to time, relative to many matters conducive to the comfort and convenience of its officers and resident students, have ever been most cheerfully met by our municipality; seventy-one acres of valuable land...
...paganis mto Christianity, and he has now many followers who are spreading his ideas throughout the entire country. Chunder Sen originated these ideas, as it were, spontaneously, and in spite of the threats of his family to disown him, he lectured to the natives and endeavored to have them conform to his own ideas. He succeeded so well that he was invited to come to England and lecture. This to come to England and lecture. This he did, and everywhere the people were astonished at his broad views; and wherever he spoke he was listened to by great audiences...
...must be admitted that the liberal innovators who have reached out toward the freer method have often been sadly disappointed in the practical results. Their students did not accept the responsibility. But perhaps their failure came because they threw themselves upon an ideal method, not modified to conform to actual conditions. The truth is that the American College student is both boy and man; he comes in, a boy, with very little sense of responsibility, and yet he is often qualified to vote long before he takes his degree. The college, receiving him a boy should send him forth...
...future of the national cheer, nor that it does right in ascribing so great a share to American colleges in bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would...