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...made no answer to the instructor who came in at that moment and said that he was at the disposal of the students and would lecture or not at their pleasure. An occurence like this is surely unfortunate, and we hope for the sake of the reputation of Harvard manhood, that nothing of the kind will happen again...
...from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral manhood, the very errors of choice are serviceable...
...give a sketch of Californian society since the Bear Flag movement. Marshall, who first discovered the gold, was found to be a thoroughly worthless man. The people of the early history of California often descended to a state of semi-barbarism, yet there was always a spirit of manhood and heroism which has brought California to the strength she has today. The miners were allowed to work the mines by the United States government only through sufferance. The idea that the stories of the pioneers are the only references which are valuable is a very incorrect one. One must...
...should be pitied. All study, and that on only two or three subjects and on only their limited class-room phases, no social intercourse, no general reading, no recreation of any sort for mind or body, are things that are not very likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some of course, but read also, converse, be sociable, take recreation, above all don't let books control the mind in all its active...
...attended this course was present last evening in Sever 11 to hear Prof. Paine's lecture and illustrations on Beethoven. The lecturer began with a short sketch of the stormy and unhappy life of the greatest of all musical geniuses,- his unhappy boyhood, and still more miserable manhood, embittered by the heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection, excelling in every branch...