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Never has a meaner or more cowardly charge been brought against Harvard University than that made in yesterday morning's issue of the New York Sun. In the article in question, the insinuations made against Capt. Cabot are absolutely false and nothing short of libel; in fact they are exactly what one would expect from some sensational newspaper, rather than from a paper of the Sun's standing...
...only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author...
...ridiculous. He rejoices in his cleverness and thinks that he is so sharp that no one can deceive him. But he deceives himself for what man could carry on his business without trusting anybody; he would not only narrow his business but he would make himself smaller and meaner...
...part of the blame certainly falls upon the men who withdraw. If they enter merely to have their names printed in the program, they are influenced by a mean motive; if they back out because they are afraid of some presumably superior athlete, they are influenced by a still meaner motive. They ought not to sign unless they intend to compete, and after signing they ought not to withdraw. It does not seem advisable to us even for men to enter merely "to oblige the association." What the spectators expect is a genuine contest. If enough men cannot be found...
...both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...