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...alone, working their way through, unaided or with help from the College and that $300 is deemed a sufficient scholarship fund, should be proof that the expense of a course at Harvard cannot be greater than at any other of the large colleges and universities. Wealth secures to its possessor anywhere luxuries and the means of indulgence and dissipation, but dissipation is as unlikely to be tolerated under a college head like President Eliot or President Lowell as it is to permit one who gives himself up to such a course to meet the rigid demands of the high standard...
...found that wealth was valued here for reasons different from those that prevailed in Europe. There it was regarded as cash to be spent for pleasure. Here it was prized for the power it conferred. Power to do what? To do good or harm? to magnify the possessor and crush obstacles to his will, or to promote the progress of the people? That is the question on which the destiny of our nation hangs...
...remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral law. Such an attitude has its value. It corrects gross abuses; but by itself...
...heard some proud possessor of an A.B. degree complain a few months after Commencement how little he really knew of the practical side of life, and how little preparation his four years of liberal education had given him to win out in the competition of the work-a-day world? Perchance to him the graduate of the down-town commercial school has seemed better fitted for the struggle. Again, who has not heard the engineer graduate of some well-known technical school, successful and perhaps well up the ladder in his particular field of mechanics -- electricity, automobiles, or what...
Many of the tickets which change hands on the streets are thoughtlessly given by graduates to uninterested employees and persons who have none of the scruples of the original owner. This could easily be avoided if every legitimate possessor of a ticket who is unable to attend himself should return it to the Athletic Association, unless he can give it to some trustworthy friend...