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...recent discussion of the best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that...
...recent pamphlet from the pen of Samuel Brearly of New York, several of the courses now given at Harvard are selected for criticism, and among others English VI. This course, instead of furnishing food for adverse criticism, should receive favorable comment. Its aim is not, perhaps, to make statesmen of all who take part in the discussions. Many of the questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate...
...Page replies to Mr. Bourne's recent letter in defense of Yale...
...Fair Harvard" - all manly and honorable men amongst the undergraduates - and such one is fain to believe form the great majority, must rejoice at the high tone which has characterized the much greater part of the communications which have appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON during the recent discussion of "cribbing." One late writer indeed seems to be of opinion that not a few men who are recognized as manly and honorable in their principles and conduct in all other matters, yet regard this as a venial one, not to be judged and condemned by the same rule...
...Hale in a recent letter on the "prayer petition" question, against the tone and tenor of some parts of which one was compelled to protest, dwelt strongly on the fact that "Harvard" expects her sons to be "gentlemen" - not to be guilty of dishonest or dishonorable acts. Harvard men surely do not need, as a body of students, to be reminded of that fact, though the writer is to be thanked for his manliness in boldly stating...