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...state of morals of Harvard suffers by comparison with that of colleges where co-education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them to the eternal torments of the wicked, &c., &c., - the sermon, we say, so teems with such sentimental platitudes that we feel a strong desire to respond in more...
...following considerate words by Dr. Wm. Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, are commended to the attention of freshmen : "Few appreciate the strain that even two or three hours' attendance daily, and the effort to master two or three simple lessons, exert on the sensitive organizations of young children. Their brain and nerves are exquisitely delicate, and it is a period of such rapid growth that the power of nutrition is taxed to supply material for the formation of perfect tissue." And we might add that the nutrition to be had at Memorial is hardly suited for the delicate brains...
...full of keen satire. He opens up an entirely new and original method of attack on free trade intended to overwhelm that doctrine; in fact, his work is a new analysis of the question that renders the decision conclusive in favor of protection. The work is destined to exert a large influence on the commerce and politics of the future, and will take a high rank in the field of economic literature. Everybody should read this work, to get a thorough understanding of the principles that are destined before long to begin a new era in political and social reform...
...whom I have any doubts is a Mr. Digaway, who lives in this house. He looks exceedingly pale from dissipation, and often has a light in his room until very late at night. It is a very sad case. I hope and pray that I may be able to exert a good influence over this young man. If I can reform at least one erring soul, I shall not have come here in vain...
...correspond with the exaggerations of the Herald. College evils are grossly misrepresented by the public prints, and society at large is not aware how much good there is in college life, especially in life at Harvard. Ability, when it is attractive, is quickly recognized here, and our leading men exert a good influence over their fellows; for it is one of the happy distinctions of Harvard that a man cannot become popular here unless he fully deserves to be so. But perhaps no society was ever so good that its members did not wish it better; and those...