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Massachusetts Hall was the centre of political ferment in Revolutionary War times. The General Court of Massachusetts sat there more than once. The students organized in 1769 a forerunner of the modern S. A. T. C.. It was called the Marti-Mercurian Band. It drilled in dashing uniforms, consisting of blue coats, faced with white; rankeen breeches, white stockings, to boots, and cocked hats...
...these days of doubt and ferment, it is only by study of basic principles that we can build a stable state. Such an addition to the economic department is a real advance in our educational system...
...Keep in touch with the current of world affairs", said Professor Frankfurter. "Never in history has there been such a seething time of intellectual ferment. A great part of the management of present day affairs lies in the hands of the legally trained man. Application to the work of the courses is a necessary part of such tr5aining, but is valueless without a realization of its real, living application to outside forces and the passing affairs of life...
...Romantic period flourished between 1780 and 1805 and was at its height during the last years of Schiller's life. Weimar, Jena and, in a less degree, Berlin were centers of importance. The period was one of ferment for young men who thought themselves endowed with genius, and influenced German thought from that day to this. But in a narrower sense, the name of Romantic School is applied only to a group of young men, born between 1765 and 1775, notably the brothers Schlegel, Tieck, Noualis, Schelling and Schleiermacher...
...Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous than elsewhere in America. Furthermore the ratio of higher thinkers to high livers is continually rising, as the library and office statistics show. The great populace at the University is apt to slur over moral laxity in a man provided he is affable...