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There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...
Then he will take up the subject of his expedition to Terra del Fuego, the region of desolation, stormy channels, mountain barriers, great glaciers, verdant forests, Cape Horn, itself. The Colonel will describe his trip on an Argentine warship to Ushnaia, the lone Argentine Penal Colony, southernmost town in the world...
...save in rare instances, is nil. In backward China, in progressive Japan, in France and Germany, the student must be reckoned with in public matters. Here he cuts no figure at all. There is too much "Tom Brown at Oxford" and too much of the "Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" in his composition. The result is that the student leaves college encased in a coating of social silica that has to be cracked off by contact with the world, and the process is often painful. He is not treated seriously during his college years because he does not treat himself...
What does four years here on our own college campus do to a man or woman? If they are normal they are vastly different from the individuals who first enrolled at the University as verdant yearlings. A subtle change is effected in their personalities, intellects, and moral outlook upon life. There is a sameness about most of the students who graduate from this University or any other university. For four years they have been trained to think alike, dress, and act alike. The individual who has steeled himself against convention is unusual and difficult to find. The student who dares...
This argument is founded upon the delusion that every verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the clouds. It is hard to believe, with the new departmental examinations, the stress put upon "intellectual responsibility," and the liberal courses offered, that Harvard is fostering the "type" and discouraging "whatsoever things are elevated...