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...fact is that over all these sources of shortsightedness we have some control, over many of them very great control. We can lessen our ignorance by earnest search for truth. We can widen our sympathies, and reduce our prejudice by striving to do so, and that without letting our resolution be sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought. We can control our passions by frankly acknowledging their existence to ourselves...
...arts, letters, history or philosophy. If he has no sufficiently keen interest outside of science, it would in general be better to utilize his concentration to prepare for his professional studies which he can do in a variety of ways. He can then use his other courses to widen his mental outlook...
...question of what degree of free dom shall be permitted to students is a very delicate one. The transition from school to college is at present so violent and in cases so disastrous, that it is doubtful wisdom to widen the breach Freshmen should be subject to the examination system as they now are, in order that their fitness to do college work may be tested and in order that a new found freedom may not develop into licensed idleness. Sophomores, also, should be subject to the examination with the exception of those who as Freshmen reached Groups...
...surely the most lasting part of that stuff called education which colleges dispense. There are those who think that a college should function only in the class room, but it is infinitely easier to believe with the multitude that a properly proportioned counter-poise of other interests can only widen and enlarge the value of undergraduate life. What is impossible is to attempt to mix the two; Athletics can contribute no more to "indifference" than "indifference" can contribute to athletics. But together they make a full man. If we are going to have sports, let us have them...
...departments; I mean knowing the how and the why of all that goes on in regard to Harvard. I wonder how many undergraduates have a very definite idea of what President Lowell is striving to attain, of the building program, of the reason why it is so necessary to widen Holyoke Street, of the purpose of the tutorial system or of divisional examinations or of the Union...