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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent extraordinary article on Harvard in the Boston Herald. We do not think that the writer of this article deserves all the scorn which our correspondent heaps on his head, but nevertheless, a fellow of his stamp may do incalculable harm if he is only persevering enough, and can find an audience for his productions. Unfortunately this audience is large and constant; colleges and college-bred men are always subjects of ridicule in a country where the majority of the inhabitants have for years been accustomed to look upon "self-made" men and home made educations and cultured...
...same time, pleasant as the professional relations of students and instructors are, the great size of the college and the consequently great expense of any formal entertainments prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths...
...surely keeps him out of mischief; nothing better helps him out if he has once fallen in. The importance, then, of securing for students who come from a distance some introduction to people living near the college can hardly be overestimated. I am informed, I may add, that some find such social life as introductions would bring in membership of the churches of Cambridge...
...Harvard spirit of which I have already spoken. Go where you will and look at Harvard men and the work they are doing in the world. It is not brilliant, perhaps; it may lack the uncompromising vigor that the cant of our day describes as practical. But wherever you find Harmen in a body you find honest, self-respecting gentlemen, alive in rare degree to the best ideals of their time...
...find that your X's, if that's what perplexes...