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Strangers from other institutions, even those from the largest and most famous universities of the country, invariably express their astonishment at the Oberlin music. Neither Harvard nor Yale, neither Amherst nor Ann Arbor can compare with us in musical advantages, and it certainly does not speak well. - Oberlin Review...
Grant that there must be a natural aptitude before training begins its work; but with this aptitude training can do almost anything. Thus if the largest possible number of men were kept in training in one way or another, gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate...
...Yale University does so as a free agent, but if he once enters, a silent and irresistible influence comes upon his own being independently of its choice. He cannot overcome the power. It works on every part of his manhood. We are members of one family in the largest sense. Even the son who perverts the influence of Yale to his own destruction, is not the same as if he had never come here. He is not only a ruined man, but a ruined son of Yale also...
...been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect...
...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 men as superfluous things. The newspaper that appeals to the largest and most ignorant audience is sure to fill its columns with just such nonsense as this; and just such nonsense as this is accepted by half its readers as gospel truth, and a reason upon which to most vigorously malign and blaspheme at colleges...