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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first scholars" seldom achieve in after-life a success at all proportionate to their academical standing. But of course this is strictly a popular notion, conceived in accordance with popular ideals. It can be answered that in such cases the scholar's ideal of success is often different from the popular ideal. Now that the ancient institution of wranglers is practically being abolished at Cambridge in England, considerable discussion is being called forth upon this question in the English press, and the recent publication of a complete list of senior wranglers seems to confirm the popular prejudice about the worthlessness...
...likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might be largely increased, if college governors and instructors would permit a franker and closer relationship to be established, is more...
...still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will be perhaps impossible ever to entirely free the public mind of a vague prejudice that a college education for a business man is most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return for their advantages, generally serve to fix indelibly in the public memory every record of the failure of a college-bred man, and just...
...mediocre and passable poetry daily ground out by the periodical press, will be shy of putting any great hopes upon such insincere matter as the most of Mr. Wilde's verses. Why, if we will but look into our own hearts, if we will but consider the mass of often excellent and promising poetry annually produced from our own midst, and then consider how little of this will ever grow and blossom into any worthy fruition, we will necessarily be cautious hereafter in staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much...
...exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair to lay the entire blame for the usual failure to this cause alone. It is much to be questioned whether it is not often...