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Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...
...trite complaint that the undergraduate takes his extra curricular activities more seriously than his studies. But he does this because his homelly latent philosophy is essentially a sporting philosophy, the good old Anglo-Saxon conviction that life is essentially a game whose significance lies in terms of winning or losing. The passion of the American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering...
...trite saying that the Prussian state is a living embodiment and a concrete application, upon a large scale, of Kantian principles of duty. Trite as this saying is, it may not be superfluous to analyze its meaning somewhat more closely. There can be no doubt that it is historically correct in so far as the founders of modern Prussia were, directly or indirectly, disciples of the Kantian philosophy. Not that Kant's views on politics and public affairs did in any specific manner shape Prussian legislation of the early nineteenth century; his views were too individualistic and too little concerned...
...contents are not above average merit, judging them by the standards of undergraduate composition. Of the three poems, the most ambitious and decidedly the best is "Nobody's Land." One passes indifferently over the trite "heart-story" which lies behind this rhapsody and forgives Mr. Jopling some melodramatic lines, content to find in him true appreciation of the great western desert and a gift of expression which sometimes reaches eloquence. There is nothing to praise, in Mr. Murdock's effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes...
What more trite lament arises nowadays from professor, parent, and college magazine than the way in which undergraduates neglect the many opportunities to come in contact with the men worth knowing in and about the University community? Not only are we often at more than bowing distance from our own professors, but we attend very few of the many excellent lecturers of which the CRIMSON takes pains to inform the undergraduate world. A few nights ago one of the best-known lecturers of Boston talked to a mere handful of men in the Union. The men who drop...