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...preparations, no exception can be taken, although one may be inclined to believe that the example of Harvard in this respect might not be the stimulating influence he anticipates. But it is necessary to regard the summer training from a patriotic point of view, rather than from the standpoint of personal benefit, if one is to wax enthusiastic...
...Cabot has announced that the Ingersoll lecture this year will differ greatly from its predecessors, in that the attempt will be made by Mr. Cabot to approach the question from the standpoint of interest to young...
Furthermore, the college student gets the material, analytic point of view, but fails to see that all things cannot be treated from this standpoint. The supernatural, the miraculous, simply do not exist for him. Yet religion is composed essentially of these elements. The only satisfactory approach to religion must itself be religious, sympathetic. Religion is a matter of experience; he who has not undergone the religious experience has no right to pass judgment on religion. Let us give religion a fair chance, and allow it to make its appeal in its own peculiar manner...
...present investigations made a lawyer more desirable at the head of the Navy Department than an ordinary business man. But almost any able and active lawyer might have a client who could be spattered on his reputation. A selection from the bench was almost inevitable. Moreover, from a political standpoint, a western progressive was desirable...
...perfectly true, as Dean Edgell points out, that many of the buildings are unspeakably bad from an aesthetic standpoint. The Boylston Laboratory for example, has many times crushed out joy from the hearts of happy mortals coming down from examinations; and the dark front of Sever has its seasons of appearing gloomily prophetic. But in spite of these architectural miscarriages, the ensemble, especially to a Harvard man, is distinctly attractive. The University did not blossom into being overnight; it has been spreading and adding to itself for almost three centuries, and its very heterogeneity is a living reminder...