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Recognizedly all men cannot be scholars. In the College, however, there has existed and still exists a mistaken disregard of scholarship. Plenty of men of energy and ability in every class never take Phi Beta Kappa seriously, or at least do not take it so until after their chance of winning it is gone. There is something wrong with undergraduate opinion, something beyond the indifference of the unenergetic which is a price of freedom and individualism...
...undergraduate department, there is a passage on Freshman dormitories which everyone and particularly the opponents of the plan should read and digest. Of course the question of its value is one which will never be entirely settled; but on one side there stands the argument, far outweighing the cry against it as the end of Harvard individualism, that "By being brought at once into the compact body of the class they (the Freshmen) can be placed in a large stream of college life flowing in a larger channel than any smaller group they meet today." And then there...
...first, Mr. Castle says, "Surely the preparatory schools should assume the responsibility of teaching their students the simple rules of English grammar during a period when their minds are most capable of assimilating those rules. . . . Apparently we must take over a large part of the burden, although we never can do it with the full success that the elementary schools could have...
...were qualified to become their executive officers. As they explained the matter, the trouble was that most young men who started to grow up with the business got caught in the trades of business, fell into ruts, got smothered with the 99 per cent. of the routine, and so never acquired a grasp of the whole business; and those who did learn enough of all sides of the business were apt to complete their knowledge when they were too old, or too inelastic and lacking in enterprise and resourcefulness, to be given important executive positions. 'Business,' which was giving...
...after all a higher animal, and as an animal, contains certain springs of action. Instruction is then fundamentally the manipulation of the underlying sources. The second nature is never fatal, but merely the result of the action of certain agencies. If exterior influences can create it from the underlying stratum, it is likewise true that it can be unmade and made again by similar agencies. The love of money, with some a second nature, is but the evolution of the principle of first nature that influences man to acquire and amass...