Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...verse "At Evening" is rather a commonplace production; "The New Year" is well rounded, but lacks strength and any noticeable beauty of thought. As for "Bits from the H. P. C. Play" they can hardly be excused even on the score of their being mere "padding" to fill up the number. While such versifying is very good for a song when the listeners won't hear the words in any way, it seems rather hard to expect anyone to enjoy reading them...
...twelve years of schooling and one year of military service. This generally comes between leaving school and going to the University. The young fellow is left to his own resources for the first time. The freedom which he enjoys is much greater than that accorded to the students even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf...
...Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction by worrying the consciences of those men who spend what we deem a perfectly legitimate holiday at home. What systematic and persistent complaint can do we have tried to do, but there are those whom not even the fates can move...
...moral restraints, this university has held fast things that are good. Here are the theological germs of the modern system of scholastic training. Here are tutors and pupils in the closest relations. Here are chamber conferences on private readings. Here, also, is the lecture system, with religious exercises, and even licensed 'cuts...
...teachers. It has always recruited its professors chiefly from the tutorial ranks. Its record of academic service affords striking evidence in favor of professorial appointments upon the basis of successful experience as subordinate teachers. While promotion for genius or exceptional merit must always be admitted in any good administration, even at the expense of seniority and faithful service, yet, on the whole, the history of Harvard and of most American college faculties, is a history of the gradual advancement of tutors by a system of collegiate service, is to universities what a progressive civil service is to the State...