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...pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece of art, however, the poem is smoothy done, and, like the "Cassandra", remarkably well contained. The verse-form-irregularly rhymed lambio pentameter-is a most difficult one, yet Mr. McLane manages his rhymes so skillfully that...
...goes without saying that members of this year's Freshman class are welcome to attend regularly or not; as they please. No one will reproach them if they do not; no particular appeals have been advanced to them to attend. The Chapel is there, the preachers are there; whether they go or not is a matter of importance to the freshmen only. The principle that the less college men are compelled to do and the more they do on their own account the better, is an abiding one at Harvard. It applies to the Chapel. Those freshmen who can truly...
Such a procedure would have a effect. It would forever remove the modern reproach that an University that cannot support itself is not an economic utility, but merely a parasite. And it would reserve the advantage of the endowment to those for whom the endowment was intended, by the givers, namely students who could not afford a higher education, if they were dependent upon their own resources. Surely Harvard would have no endowment at all, had it been realized that it was to be used to pay the expenses of students with $500 apartments and a Locomobile in the garage...
...opinion of this committee," the report concludes, "the attitude of the University, under the leadership of President Lowell, throughout the war has been beyond reproach, and the University has met every demand and every test successfully. It follows also that the plans for the future are being sanely, calmly and intelligently worked out under President Lowell." After summarizing the progress of military instruction at Harvard during the war under the Harvard R. O. T. C., and the Student Army Training Corps, the Naval S. A. T. C. and the U. S. Naval Radio School, the report reviews the record...
...practice of lynching does not prevail in Canada, nor in England and France. How long must America be compelled to accept the reproach...