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...opens with a description of the Graduate Department. He sets forth the reasons which have led Harvard to take a more advanced position with regard to mental training than that of most American colleges. These have hitherto contented themselves with filling the mind with a superficial culture which finds vent in the platitudes of average commencement parts. The crying need in this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe thought...
...quarters of an hour before the time was up. Immediately a proctor strolled along, his boots creaking like the doors in Sever, took up the blue-book, seated himself on the desk, and proceeded to read. Of course his superior knowledge found flaws in the book. And he gave vent to his feelings by a series of loud snorts and chuckles, which, under ordinary circumstances, would have been exasperating, but at the time it was simply maddening. I cannot see what business he had to look into the book in the first place; in the second place he should have...
...glances at the bashful maids across the hall. After a while, when it became apparent that nothing further was expected of the men, except that they should go home, they cheerfully departed, congratulating each other on the delightful evening they all had spent. On the way home they gave vent to their pent up enthusiasm in a serenade to the young ladies of Lasselle...
There are some things to be said in favor of the institution, but many more to be said against it. Those who wish it to continue urge that it gives vent to a feeling that otherwise would find an outlet in hazing; that it serves to break the ice, to some extent, between the freshmen and the upper classmen; and furthermore, that it is a time honored institution, and that that should be argument enough for its continuance...
That the feeling of hostility between the sophomores and freshmen finds vent on "Bloody Monday" night is in a way, true. But whether it would find vent in hazing if "Bloody Monday" were not observed is by no means as clear. The sentiment at Harvard today is very strong against hazing, or anything that partakes of the nature of it, and it is this feeling, and not the fear of punishment, that prevents sophomores to-day from reviving this custom of the past. But in any case the influence resulting from hazing could not be worse than that from "Bloody...