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...discovery. But take each class, take each department, and try to point them out to me. No college in the country has conditions so favorable to the strong influence of an instructor's character, provided it exert itself at all, as Harvard. No longer can a professor make himself felt here by utterances ex cathedra; for, unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception...
...mind, one of the most delightful institutions of the Attic republic was that which permitted the people to banish from among them, from time to time, the men of whom they had grown tired. The delight that an old Greek must have felt at seeing some disagreeable fellow, who had outstripped him in military or political life, or who had neglected to invite him to select little dinner-parties, packed off, bag and baggage, for parts unknown, must have been one of the most unalloyed sentiments that ever filled the human heart; and I often find myself lost in envy...
...will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore been obliged to give it up. His case is not exceptional; others might be mentioned, but one is enough to illustrate the evil working of the system, and to show that...
...Pudding Club, and said that, while he had no desire to interfere with the private affairs of the society, he was obliged to ask them to discontinue the "running," because it created a public disturbance. Naturally this request caused some excitement among the members of the club, and they felt unwilling to abandon what they considered a custom of long standing. The President assures them that the custom is not an old one, and there the matter stands. Considered purely in the light of an affair between the President and a society of limited membership, it is not a question...
...several persons. A feeling of compassion for the readers of the Crimson has also moved us in this matter. It has always been the desire of the editors of the paper to leave its columns open to the discussion of any subject in which a majority of undergraduates felt an interest. However excellent a thing Persian poetry may be in itself, it is not the prevailing topic of conversation in Cambridge. Apart from the discussion of Persian poetry the questions which this controversy has raised are questions of opinion in regard to the relative merits of Mr. Emerson's earlier...