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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...violent that, although I have no wish to enter upon a prolonged discussion, I feel that I am justified in saying a few words in my defence. With my opponent's premises I agree. In saying that Class Day ought to commemorate class traditions, he is unquestionably right. The present system of instruction, however, has rendered our own class traditions radically different from those of our predecessors. The Harvard class of a dozen years ago was a very different thing from the Harvard class of to-day. Brought together daily by a four-years' course of required studies, the eighty...
...present day the two hundred students who enter with each class are thrown together only in chapel. After the first year in college, the elective system so completely separates classmates, and so completely breaks down all class distinctions, that, except in societies and at prayers, classes can hardly be said to retain any individual existence. Instead of his classmates, the student meets in the recitation-room his fellow-students. Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors whose tastes coincide are constantly found side by side in the same elective, while classmates whose inclinations differ do not meet twenty times in their whole course...
...reason these nominations should be unsatisfactory to the majority of outsiders, they should be able to refuse to elect the nominees and to demand new ones. By a plan like this a balance of power would be established, which would prevent from either side the aggression which is at present resented by both...
...every class enter college, as infants enter the world, on perfectly equal terms, and that the subsequent differences in their position are due in a great degree to their antecedents, to their characters, and to their abilities." In this article we have demanded an equality to which our present position entitles us, not one which would require a retrospection to the days of our grand-fathers...
...made by the Directors during the month of January that I now make these strictures. After the abundance of petty complaints, or rather the omnivocalism of the complainers, the results of their investigations were a surprise to the Directors themselves, and certainly make a most satisfactory showing for the present steward; who, except in the heated imagination of a rash editor, is not considered as occupying "the double position of servant of the students and creature of the President." In fact, the Directors have found Mr. Farmer not only ready to attend to complaints made by or through them...