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...overmuch at home among the weeping...
...life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...
...declare for a more leisurely life while we are here, a life fuller of quiet reading and discussion, more like that in the English universities. We are all too busy. Some are overburdened with political or social duties, others are hard at work in athletics, a few work overmuch at their books, while the great body of the class drifts along from day to day, doing its appointed tasks mechanically well enough but doing very little thinking. I would like to see fewer distractions in the way of outside interests, fewer clubs, less serious athletics, less social scrambling, and more...
...academic community does not devote overmuch time to philosophic celebrations; but if they are rare, then they deserve the more attention. Four years ago we all united in doing honor to the memory of Emerson on the hundredth anniversary of his birthday. Those who praised Emerson as a philosopher emphasized that it was his mission to give beautiful form to the idealistic thoughts of the great philosophical movement which started with Kant and culminated in Fichte. Tonight's celebration at the German Verein is devoted to Fichte himself. Some Harvard men have wished to do what has been done...
...spoke of President Eliot's proof that at present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only...