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Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
...nose this last time which makes me wheeze, when I walk, like an old accordion and also raised a few blisters on my face, neck and chest--but fortunately did not get into my eyes very much or hit me hard enough to make much trouble, unless I over-exert...
...more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this seeming I was wrong,--Mr. Prosser says...
...community. Both are to be found in our universities, where they reflect a spirit for no value to their country. One is the student, about to offer his services, who regards the little remaining time which he must spend at college as a period in which he need exert no effort. The other is the student who, safe within his college walls, finds life but a daily round of routine and petty pleasure. He reads morning headlines as of passing concern. The evolutions of the day are a kind of motion picture, seen from the comfortable chair of self-complacency...
...gratefulness in academic circles for the clarity with which President Lowell has now spoken out on the ever-vexed issue of freedom of speech in the University. On the one hand he has shown what is the new disadvantage that must fall on a college which seeks to exert an actual censorship of the opinions publicly expressed by its professors. Assuming authority to delete what it considers undesirable material, the college becomes incidentally and with fresh weight responsible for the material which it allows to remain. In this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim...