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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vague notions we have. We have heard in a general way rather indefinite opinions expressed. These opinions come to us largely from men of experience. The professions are over-crowded. There is plenty of room for genius, but little room for mediocre ability. The days are past when the mere fact of possessing a college education ensures a man even the means of support. More men every day are devoting themselves to specialties. The time has gone by when the lawyer can meet all the various complexities which are brought to him by his clients. So very vague...
...powerful stereopticon. View after view is projected on the screen, and it is difficult not to feel that one is actually transported to the land of mountains and glaciers. We would remind the students that the lectures begin promptly at seven o'clock, not at half past, as some seem to have got the impression...
...college; but those other and higher successes in life, successes of mind and intellect, are not really achieved until years after graduation. With graduation, athletics fade away for the most part from the student's memory; but the intellectual life seems then to have only just begun. Harvard past is famous not for her athletic achievements, but for the deeds of her great thinkers and writers. And Harvard present, when it is past, will be likewise famous...
...graduated. And as its athletic glory fades away it wins for itself the glory that is more lasting, for greatness and nobility and genius. Men formerly thought "indifferent," become men of strength and opinion. The hitherto unseen current of thought is now clearly visible. So has been the past. So will be the future. And while it is not crankism to say that the sooner this current of serious thought displays itself, the better for the thinker and for the college, it is more than crankism to say that all the attention that college men now give to athletics...
...they should be. It is no conceit for us to say that the CRIMSON is one of the best means now existing by which college opinion may be expressed, and we would gladly see the paper become more a paper of college sentiment than it has been in the past. We have always been glad to publish contributions and communications on any matters that have been deemed by us of general interest, and we are still glad to do so. We urge members of the college to make use of our columns in expressing the opinions that we believe they...