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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Most of those who have never had, or who have neglected, the opportunity of liberally educating themselves are ready to lend a respectful ear to a respectable graduate of a respectable college. A degree is a sort of certificate of social, or at all events of mental, superiority, whose validity is generally allowed until it has been publicly disproved. It may be safely said of any large body of students, that they are destined to be influential members of the communities of which they shall form a part...
...college like Harvard, whose ambitious students are wont to boast that her professors of Latin and Greek have not their equals in America, it is a little strange that such great learning should not be allowed to cover a few sins of pedantry. If we, in our prouder moments, maintain that our professors know more than any others of av, or of fuerat for fuisset, can we not, in the recitation-room, allow a little of that learning to be uttered to our unappreciative ears? But I am not willing to admit that there is much of this pardonable pride...
...those who believe that Greek and Latin studies have been important always, and are now particularly so. This decline is explained and justified, as so many other things are, by a hasty allusion to "the spirit and the temper of the age" (of this great and good age whose tendencies should be fondled only, and condemned never). Greek and Latin are dead, it is said, and should be buried; but the modern languages and the sciences are alive and full of practical interest. How much or how little truth there is in this cry it is not necessary or possible...
There is another consideration in the person of the Chaplain. Many of us, most of us, feel a respect we should like to express for some substantial, steadfast character we have admired through college. We choose an Orator whose skill will express our acquirements to our friends and fellows. We choose a Chaplain to express our sentiments and freshness of heart. A wrong selection (as has once or twice occurred) does not dishonor the office, but the class. He stands as their prayer to heaven, - if it be a curse, they must bear it; if a blessing, they must receive...
...student cannot possibly devote so much time and means to the acquisition of his profession previous to entering upon the practice of it. The duty of a law school, in the present age and in this country, which has no requirements for admission, no entrance examination, the majority of whose students are not college graduates, which requires for a degree a course of only two years' instruction, and whose graduates expect, and many are forced, to go immediately into the practice of the law, is not to attempt to make jurists or philosophers out of the students, but to give...