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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...department of life can this influence be more usefully exerted than in politics. Firm and decisive moves of the educated classes are almost invariably successful, while indifference or carelessness on their part is sure to lead to carelessness or something far worse in their subordinates, if I may employ the term. Every "man" - to use the word in its college sense - ought to realize this fact in his thoughtful moments, if he has any, as every man does. Few, however, trouble themselves about the matter, and most graduate with perhaps an excellent knowledge of Sanskrit roots, of the Calculus...
...Gymnasium, to be sure, is open all day; but when recitations crowd as close upon one another as people in a Cambridge street-car, the journey there and back to our rooms, together with the attendant nuisance of getting into exercising costume and out of it again, consumes more time than we can spare...
...given. How many would of their own free will have learned anything about the time and circumstances of the First Philippic or about the geography of Greece? The derivation of three words is another question; the first of them is a hit at Euripides, - a little obtuse, to be sure, but quite worth understanding, - and the last informs us of one the ancient customs. There is no more room for further examples, but almost all the papers are made up of questions which a man can easily answer who thoroughly comprehends the author...
...janitor, Kiernan, after the ringing of the first bell, was wont to go to the house of the clergyman who was to officiate and make sure of his attendance, and on his way back, he passed in the rear of Holworthy, clapping his hands to wake up the Seniors. It was generally understood in those days that when it was too dark for the minister to read, the monitors did not mark. In the latter part of the life of old Dr. Ware, when he had become almost blind, the undergraduates sometimes took advantage of this established custom...
THERE is some talk of giving honors in Fine Arts. We do not see why there should not be this incentive and reward in Fine Arts as well as in other departments. The number of courses is limited, to be sure, and honors, would hardly represent as much work in this study, but with the growth of interest on the part of the students other courses will in time undoubtedly be added. It would not be necessary or appropriate to require fifteen hours, even if so many could be taken, for few indeed would care to devote themselves so exclusively...