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...York, Dr. Crosby indulged at the same time in wholesale condemnation of several other tendencies of modern university life and methods, forming, as a Boston paper puts it, altogether a "strange mixture of sense and dogmatism." Among other things cried out against was the elective system, the stale stock arguments being brought up against it, and aimed very plainly against the particular case of Harvard. "He declares," says this Boston paper, "that an American boy of eighteen is not competent to select the studies which will give him the most valuable training or best fit him for active life...
...have hitherto refrained from saying any thing about the Harvard Union under its present management, because that body has been in the past so peculiarly the protege of the college press that we feared the mention of it had grown stale by repetition; but the recent debates held in Sever call for a word of the warmest approval. The Union has shown its undoubted right to the support of the entire University, and by the event proved the wisdom of its choice of a presiding officer. It is growing in popularity and in influence; and it may now be entirely...
...Syracusan contains articles on "Lord Beacons-field, "Socialism," "The Study of Music," such as one might find in almost any other of our exchanges, and equally stale, flat, and unprofitable; but with one pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were...
...were in my position. The Oxford summer term ends early in June, and the men by that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity Race in February and March, and besides many would be utterly prevented from rowing, so the crew would be in reality...
...Cornell Review this month is "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." All the articles are heavy and uninteresting. Our advice to the Editors is, to copy the Yale Lit. and give more light reading...