Word: go
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...self-direction that the older and more earnest-minded students will have, the guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge...
...worthy men who uphold the compulsory system undoubtedly long to bring into the church students who are out of it, and they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion...
...this moment it cannot be denied that the relations between students and officers are not as intimate as could be wished. So far as they go, they are charming: each body treats the other with a courtesy that can hardly be excelled. The elective system, among its other benefits, has worked the destruction of the time-honored hostility that used to exist...
...critics say, as they have said any time these hundred years, to rear a race of good-humored do nothings, if not worse; and so on. There is but one answer to this. That is to be found in the 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...
...which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have had double the time to go into...