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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desires of his publishers (The Messrs. Scribner) Mr. Edwin L. Godkin has made a selection of "Reflections and Comments, 1865-1895" from his editorial articles in the Nation during the last thirty years. They are thirty-three in number, arranged chronologically, and are a distined addition to the writer's contributions to the volume of "Critical and Social Essaye," gathered from the same source in 1867. Political to pics-as in the articles on Horace Greely, the South after the War, "The Short Hairs," and "The Swallow-Tails," Organs, Physicrl Force in Politics, and Role of the Universities in Politics...
Finally, it seems necessary to add, no communications will be published unless they are accompanied by the name of the writer, "not necessarily for publication," as the stereotype phrase is, "but as an evidence of good faith." It is strange that a rule which is universally enforced by newspapers and periodicals is not more generally understood...
There is a somewhat lengthy editorial upon the advisability of discontinuing the presence of proctors in the examination room. The writer argues in the negative, principally on account of what he calls the lack of public opinion at Harvard. He wisely leaves the subject, however, to enlarge upon the growing idea of the abolition of examinations entirely. In substitution for which he says there should be theses or weekly tests. This is obviously the reform that will come in the future, and which already has been seriously discussed by those in authority...
...writer accuses the hounds of running through yards, breaking down fences, and otherwise doing damage, thus causing ill-feeling to be arroused against the College on the part of the owners of the property. As a matter of fact, all of the fences scaled were as intact after the so-called "pell-mell on-slaught" of the hounds as before. Indeed, the whole extent of the damage was that a grape-vine was slightly torn from its fastenings and that a flowerbed in which there were no flowers was trampled down...
...rich men's sons are trained here, but the lesson they learn is of the little avail of wealth without the recommendation of personal merit and ability. "Harvard has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that...