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...plan suggested was its expense, which would be considerable. Expense is always a matter of prime importance where the funds are small. Now that expense may not be a hindrance to this much needed reform and consequent improvement, I would like to suggest another plan of accomplishing the desired result. It is, instead of tearing the tubs to pieces and resetting them satisfactorily, to place in the bottom of each of the tubs as they stand at present a thin slab of soapstone thicker at one end than at the other. This would carry the water off properly and would...
...relations which exist between the governing body and the students and the usefulness of the college is greatly impaired. So it seems clear that, in a case like this, where the students are so directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them and to aim for a higher moral standard regardless of consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would...
...would be so radical a change as that advocated by the latter party. It is in itself a broader question than that of the elective system, but with the freshman year abolished, it would not directly affect the practical question of the Harvard curriculum. The agitation, we believe, can result in no other outcome than that of compromise; not however a compromise based on the extremist doctrines of President Eliot in regard to the early differentiation of studies...
...campaign which ended in the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was one which called for generalship, as the forces on each side were about equal. The result proved that General Grant was more worthy of fame than his Confederate antagonist, General Pemberton. That the delay in taking these cities was so great is not due to any superiority of force or ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi...
...they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they cause. I take the liberty of explaining why we are reticent in making arrangements in regard to athletics with the other colleges. It is the result of long experience. The question has been talked over more than ten years, and upon it President Eliot and myself have bestowed much thought, though we have never agreed. The two colleges are differently situated. Harvard, if she needs a competent adversary, can send her team to Boston...