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...students and professors alike. No censorship should be imposed upon thoughts or their utterance. If the University were to decree what its professors and students should or should not say, then it would be making itself responsible for any statement made by its members. A university does not profess to exist for that purpose. All of its energies and resources are to be expended in training minds to seek the truth, some in branches of the arts and sciences, others in simply learning patience to endure the work of the world...
Then, as to the competition itself. It is hard work, and does not profess to be otherwise, but the drudgery and protracted labor which cause many of the stagnant-minded to fight shy of it is one of its greatest values. For this teaches accuracy, alertness, and, perhaps most important of all, that which so many business men complain that college graduates lack--a sense of discipline. Beyond these, the competition places a man in touch with the leaders in the various undergraduate and University activities; and opens to him a glimpse of Harvard as a University--the world...
...interests, and a great deal of the wrong that is done is concealed from the actors by their devotion to the welfare of the concern. Even in charitable and educational institutions one feels this strongly. They struggle against one another to the detriment of the cause in which they profess to be engaged, until the army of the Lord sometimes reminds one of that of Midian which was destroyed before Gideon because every man's sword was against his fellow. If this be true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more of those whose primary object...
...meeting of the Harvard Aeronautical Society this evening in the Union is of great importance to the large number of men in the University who profess an interest in the navigation of the air. The attendance at this meeting will directly decide whether or not the society is to continue along the lines it has already laid down for its future course. A high standard has been set; it now remains to be seen whether that standard can be maintained...
...accurate thought, and this will not come merely by surveying the elementary principles of many objects. It requires a mastery of something, acquired by continuous application. Every student ought to know in some subject what the ultimate sources of opinion are, and how they are handled by those who profess it. Only in this way is he likely to gain the solidity of thought that begets sound thinking. In short, he ought, so far as in him lies, to be both broad and profound...