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...thing that you should found such a college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization in the face, and because animals can run into evil courses, become vegetables which cannot? This indeed amounts to throwing up the game of life and admitting that the world is worse...
...young men have. But let us not, like our Michigan contemporary, give up all that is good in order to add our voices to this clamor. The proportion of intelligent men is much larger among collegemen than among those voters without a college education. Let us, then, not sneer at the influence college men have in politics, but let all college trained men unite to do their best in endeavoring to make the government of our country what it should be, as clean and strong as possible...
...spirit of discourtesy and arrogance which we are sure she has never yet exhibited. To explain the design of the Record in publishing the story we are unable; we give it the credit, however, of ingenuous and honorable motives. To claim the item as a Harvard "sneer" is only one more of the innumerable slanders upon this college by the public press, about which we have so often to complain...
...quoted in our yesterday's issue; and surely every Harvard man will agree with us in this. Such sentiments are both admirable and truly generous, and far too seldom find utterance either East or West. We fear lest our Western friends, who are often too sensitive to the ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate, will misconstrue our meaning. "In this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy...
...freshwater' schools are beginning to draw away students from the 'old salts.' The fair-minded student East or West will see that in this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy, and the Western depreciation of Eastern colleges is as absurd as the more frequent and ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate at Western institutions...