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Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player...
There have been thirteen different directors and professors at the school, representing ten universities and colleges at home, and the school has had sixty students. These students received their first degree in thirty-one different American institutions of learning; thirty-eight of them have received higher degrees; twenty six have received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred at seven universities in America and five in Europe; forty-nine are or have been teachers, thirty with the rank of Professor in forty-two institutions of learning in the United States...
...lives of others. If morals could be analyzed scientifically they would cease to be morals, because the conscience will only be obeyed when it speaks mysteriously. Education has taught the value of precision and accuracy, but it should never lead us to expect precision in the higher life. Lessing says, "He who does not lose his reason at times has no reason to lose." He who ceases to be led by emotions which he cannot understand, ceases to be a man: God satisfies the understanding by passing beyond...
...Pooling is beneficial to the railroads.- (a) Railroads profit more on a uniform rate than a fluctuating rate of even higher average.- (1) Fluctuating rates cause fluctuating volume of traffic.- (i) Fluctuating volume of traffic incurs greater operating expenses than a uniform volume.- (ii) Uniform traffic causes capital to be constantly employed; no idleness or loss by interest.- (b) Rate wars following prohibition of pooling caused enormous decline of railroad property: Quar. Jour. Econ. Jan. '89, p. 178.- (c) Railroads themselves favor pooling...
...founders of Harvard College had in their minds a very noble conception-that the duty of a college consisted not only in endowing its students with intellectual power, but also to give them over to the higher and broader interest of the state. In the questions and aims of political life men like James Russell Lowell and George William Curtis are needed to come forward,- men who, through a deep love for their country, are ready to place their intellectual attainments in its service...