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Amid virtually continuous cheering, Deputies representing all parties rose to thank Mr. Smith with similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound volume. It was dedicated and presented to Jeremiah Smith, Esq. After a sumptuous banquet in his honor he quitted Hungary last week...
Just such is the danger which menaces the American college, hidden in the warmth, the flame, the color and the laughter of its Class Day and Commencement celebrations. It is an offering by each individual to his own loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming...
...many diversions are at hand. Vitally necessary it is therefore to conserve the placid comforts of a smoking jacket. In spite of the anti-tobacco league, the weed remains the constant solace of a harried soul. Since the time of Walter Raleigh, men have profited by the genial warmth of a mouthy fireplace...
...serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university the traditional human warmth of the small college...
...There is nothing specious in his enthusiasm for literature. It is not affected as decently due to his profession. Rather his love of letters preceded and informs his professional knowledge and skill with persuasive warmth. It would be a part of him whatever he did, and would communicate itself in ways superior to formal instruction. Colleges need such teachers. Liberal studies depend on them. And what is more needed, in college and beyond, that the spirit of those who have been enlightened by liberal studies...