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...Doors in the Holy Land," by Henry Van Dyke h.'94; "Cap'n Eri," by Joseph C. Lincoln; "Partners of the Tide," by Joseph C. Lincoln; "Drama and Life," by A. B. Walkley; "The Appreciation of the Drama," by Charles H. Caffin; "Renaissance of the English Drama," by Henry Arthur Jones; "Shamrock Land," by Plummer F. Jones; "Charles Dickens," by Frederic G. Kitton; "A History of Spanish Literature," by James Fitz-Maurice Kelly; "The Spanish People," by Martin A. S. Hume; "The Rise of the Greek Epic," by Gilbert Murray; "The American College," by Abraham Flexner; "Justice and Liberty...
...American people more interested in scholarship than in athletics is by proving that our prize scholars, even more than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown by Professor Lowell's investigations...
...prize winners of the college today are the strong men of the nation tomorrow, the strong men of the college tomorrow will all want to be prize winners. When that consummation is reached, and not until then, will intellectual ambition and life come to its own as the dominant element in a university of free and self-directing students, anxious to prepare themselves for the citizenship of a free and self-directing state...
...civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity of his life and by his absolute devotion to duty and the public interest. He lays down the cares of office voluntarily at the ripe age of seventy-five while 'his eye is not dimmed nor his natural force abated.' Indeed his temperament has mellowed with time, and he has grown young with...
...course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome and keen enthusiasm for serious mental effort for the sake of the people who enter its doors. Other activities and aspects of the life have their value, largely in proportion to the moderation with which they are practiced, but it remains for the intellectual efforts and ambitions to be the basis for a college's real excuse for existence...