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...fields quite outside their own particular course of study. Harvard was like that once. Emerson did little reading for his classes, but much for himself; and Roosevelt, too, found time to reflect and write. The Harvard College of today is far different. Men no longer have time to linger over meals, to exchange ideas, and so to broaden their intellectual horizons. The passing of Memorial Hall more than any other single event showed doubters that the old Harvard with its easy cultural life is dead...
...tempted to linger over the editorials and reviews, for reasons which will become apparent. Under the chastely classical heading of "47 Obitt", the editors bestrew the grave of the Workshop with a few choice pleas and wave the reader on to more extended articles on the subject in the body of the magazine; they further regretfully observe, in the succeeding editorial, that Mrs. Grundy, in the person of the Library authorities, persists in seeing it through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable...
...penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement, and to give a truthful picture of the mental antithesis peculiar to a man leaving his alma mater. It is one of the few student poems that will linger in my memory...
...that the Court should be open to "all States recognized by treaty or diplomatic relations with the signatories." Most of the other amendments have to do entirely with striking from the statute the names of the League and of its parts, so that no taint of them might linger after...
...Linger Awhile...