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...best the world can offer, he can not fail, however thoughtless he may be, to be influenced in the direction of good. It is this circle of the older professors at Harvard that makes us fell proud of our university and it is to their personality that we shall look back when we shall have gone forth from her walls. Every student who has the good fortune to come in contact with these men feels that he is bettered by that contact and that he is bettered by that contact and those who did not know them still feel their...
...considered wise. Still we cannot but cherish the hope that this abandonment is but a temporary one. A university which claims to hold the highest place among the educational institutions of the country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown by the growth of our departments of Sanskrit and Semitic languages. A university should maintain a number of chairs, which bring no direct returns, for the sake of its reputation. We feel sure...
This phase of the matter is of vital importance because it is that which affects the relations of the faculties and students. The former look at the moral and the latter at the practical effects of the proposed change. Destroy the good relations which exist between the governing body and the students and the usefulness of the college is greatly impaired. So it seems clear that, in a case like this, where the students are so directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them...
...points was gained as would be of much value in any general inter-collegiate convention. Moreover our students would like to learn the opinions of their fellows at other colleges. They cannot do this better than by meeting them on common grounds and talking the whole matter over and looking at it as other students are compelled to. To look at athletics from every standpoint which effects the American student will be a means of broadening our future grasp of the subject. Many things may be learned, as well as propounded by sending delegates to such a convention...
...intend to enter the Harvard Law School next year, to remain two years. Then I hope to be admitted a member of the Kentucky Bar. And wherever I am I shall always look back with much pleasure to the four years in which '84 had an active existence...