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...Abstruse Studies," "Uses of Literary History,"-think of it, gentlemen! And yet such writers as J. F. Clarke and F. H. Hedge, even in their college days, did not lack entertaining thoughts to utter on these and similar subjects. Dr. Holmes had not then given out his chilling dictum that "Knowledge, like timber, should not be much used till seasoned," and students were not, therefore, half-ashamed to have thoughts on such subjects and to speak them out. But then, as Snodkins holds, there are no more Dr. Hedges and Dr. Clarkes on the papers, and we are doubtless spared...
...Tech grieves because donors of gifts to colleges "naturally, perhaps not always wisely, select an old and famous seat of learning as the recipient of their bequest. Nowhere is the dictum, 'Unto him that hath, it shall be given,' more exactly true than in respect to college funds. The few thousands and the library of John Harvard have yielded a return of honor beyond the power of any succeeding legacy...
...certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous and extreme in his opinions and acts regarding undergraduates than any one of his superiors, we humbly but most vigorously protest. In the present instance the Registrar's dictum presumptuously vetoed the Secretary's approval; and in another instance, yet fresh in the minds of one Senior society at least, Sir Registrar coolly denied a request that the Dean granted. We trust that the Faculty will take action on this question, and not add to the long list of Harvard...
...dictum is final. No more will the Portfolio call up the wonted raptures, but still it comes monthly to insult my grief. I give it up. Hereafter I shall consign myself to the "odors of Araby" which haunt Boylston Hall, and the mercies of the Higher Mathematics...
Throughout the land the monarch's dictum...