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...been free from them. The carelessness of students who are accustomed to the use of tobacco is proverbial and some day may have serious results. The cost of fire-escapes is small and their introduction would doubtless allay the fears of many who are so unfortunate as to dwell in the upper stories...
...believe the highest things about herself. Our Harvard way is, as a whole, to read life on its negative side more than on its positive. We think of such enlargements as I have depicted rather as escapes from bigotry and superstition than as possible entrances into deeper faith. We dwell more on the exposure of error than on the discovery of truth in spiritual things. We are more afraid of believing something which we ought not to believe than of not believing something which we ought to believe. We distrust the enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from...
...Rich started out in his address. In it he ably covered the various vital points in the University's past and present development on which it was natural that he should address his fellow undergraduates. We must deplore, however, the fact that Mr. Rich found it wise to dwell so long and so heavily upon his criticism of the present system of instruction. It might well be questioned whether or no this was in good taste...
...early dramas. The exact arrangement of stage and orchestra in the theatre is not fully understood, and archaeologists still differ widely in their views about essential features. False notions have sprung up about the appearance of the theatre through the descriptions which late Roman writers made of it. To dwell carefully on the details of this grand structure, in which the greatest of the world's dramas were performed, is one of the most grateful tasks for the modern student of archaeology...
...enroll his name upon the college books" at Cambridge? Only that one who shows in written examinations that he is capable of entering the sophomore class of a host of smaller colleges, among which can be reckoned Brown. In the second place, does Harvard give degrees to those "who dwell for four years within her sacred precincts of learning?" If we are not mistaken, solid work in sixteen courses, or their equivalent, is required before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations...