Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard graduates scholars, but our smaller colleges graduate men," is a remark not unfrequently heard. Many a boy has been sent to Amherst or Dartmouth because his parents, although acknowledging the superior educational advantages of Harvard, have thought to keep their sons from the corrupting influences of a great university. But one may fairly ask what goes to make up manhood? If withdrawal from temptations, association with none but the strictly virtuous, blissful ignorance of vice make a man, then Harvard indeed does not graduate men. There is vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does...
...meal. Potatoes should be thoroughly cooked so as to be mealy, otherwise the saliva cannot do its whole work. Excessive muscular exertion immediately before or after a meal is injurious, as by this means blood is drawn away from the stomach. The student should put away all thought of study when eating. For a person in health few rules are best, and perhaps the following are as good as any. Give no thought to the working of your digestive organs. Do not eat by formulae, scientific, or otherwise, but eat wholesome, well cooked food, what you want and as much...
...land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard above all other colleges, but to get teaching that was secular, free from the eternal theological dogmas and cant which distinguish so many of our sister-colleges? Is it that the tone of student thought is unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person...
...large majority of men during the college course, and especially during the senior year, the ever recurring question is "What shall I make my life work?" Happy are those men who have a decided bent in some direction and who are never tormented by the thought of their future occupation. College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel...
...them. Why does the committee exist unless for action, as well as discussion? Discussion without resulting action is practically worthless. To this fact that they do not appreciate their powers is due the result that three months of conference have produced two resolutions that, as regards weight of thought, could just as well have been passed at the first as at the last meeting. By results students at large must judge the committee. It is surely to be regretted that results thus far have been unsatisfactory...