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...only for ourselves, but for the editors of the other Harvard papers as well. To arouse the desired increase of interest in literary work ought not to require ten, or even five dollar prizes. It is to be added that few of the Harvard papers are blessed with thousand dollar surpluses...
Among all the difficulties that the young aspirant for a college course has to encounter-and the number is by no means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done...
...varsity nine last year after its victorious trip to New Haven and Amherst. Few will ever forget the ovation the nine received as it came down by the yard in the midst of a blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed be forgotten for many a year,- by the proctors, at least...
...There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve a more practical Deus-ex-machina end, dreams have been used by authors. Before such an array of wonderful dreams, we cannot but admit that dreams are among the strangest things...
Consider the situation. The man whose education is based on the rich experience of six thousand years is brought into daily intercourse with the man whose ideas are but the crude generalizations attained to in five thousand nine hundred and seventy. Their natural ability may be equal; but the difference in their points of view is tremendous. Fathers, as is well known, are never progressive; the standards of their early manhood are retained,-and they are long supplanted standards. As for mothers, the case is even worse, for their ideals are those of the maternal grandfather...