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Chrestomathy behavior. . . . The Harvard undergraduate talks of himself and his comrades as boys. He has not learnt to swagger. . . . His dress, too, is much less costly and showy; for the most part it is of a dark cloth. I notice none of those waistcoats with which an Oxford man dazzles the poorer scholars of his college and startles his friends at home. T h e ordinary Harvard man might have stepped out of a city office or a Normal School for Teachers. He belongs to a poorer class. . . . [And yet] there is another fault for which Harvard men are reproached by their rivals and enemies. They are distinguished, it is said, by a certain priggishness, a certain consciousness too openly shown that they are not only the salt, but the superfine salt, of the earth. . . . They are fond of telling a story of a man who had twin sons, one of whom he sent to Harvard, and the other to Yale. Before they entered College, no one, not even their father, could tell them apart; but after graduation the difference was plain. One was a Harvard gentleman, the other a Vale rough."—GEORGE BlRKBECK H I L L , Harvard College by an Oxonian (1894).
"It is frequently and somewhat stridently objected that the club life at Harvard does not promote a spirit of democracy. Docs club life promote such a spirit anywhere? To live in a dormitory de luxe, with a ptivate bath of your own and a swimming tank in the basement, when the fellow that checks off your attendance at recitation dwells in a dim attic and bathes at the gymnasium, does not promote a spirit of democracy. At Harvard, as elsewhere in America, the rich have grown richer, and the poor arcstill the poor."—ARTHUR STANWOOD
PIER, A.B. 1895, The Story ofHarvard (191.3). "To me Harvard is the glory of New Kngland and America, yet 1 can see how a Yale man may love Ytle as I love H a r v a r d . " — Li: B A R O N
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BRIGGS, A.B. 1875, Oean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1902-25. "A Vale man defined autobiography as 'a Harvard man t a l k i n g . ' " — M I T C H E L L DAVIS POLLANSBEE, A.B. 1892.
"There is a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question."—ABBOTT LAWRENCE L O W E L L , A.B. 1877, Presi-
"The chief wonder of education is that it docs not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Sometimes in after life, Adams debated whether in fact it had not ruined him and most of his companions. But disappointments apart, Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence."—HENRY ADAMS,
A.B. 1858, in The Education of Henn Adams (1918).
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"There ought at any rate to be some possible ground in reason for ones boiling over with joy that one is a son of Harvard, and was not, by some unspeakably horrible accident of birth, predestined to graduate at Yale ot Cornell. . . . As a nursery for independent and lonely thinkers I do believe Harvard is still in the van."—WILLIAM JAMES, M.D.
1869.
"The tnic Harvard is the invisible Harvard in the souls of her more truth-seeking and independent and often very solitary sons. Thoughts are the precious seeds of which our universities should be the botanical gardens."—[BID., from an address at the 1903 Commencement dinner.
dent, 1909-33. "Universities are full of knowledge. The freshmen bring a little in, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates."—IHID. "1 perceive that I got almost nothing of intellectual value from Harvard University. It was my fault, no doubt; if I had been a real student, I should have found genuine instruction. But, for all my assumption of superiority, the crudcness of my mind at the age of twenty wakens amazement in me."— LOGAN PEARSALL S M I T H , a student at
the College in 1884-85. "1 loved Harvard with the affection that a man has for the new country where he has found his first long-rcmembcred taste of freedom."—FRANCIS BIODLE
'09, LL.B. T l . "Now, what is the traditional spirit of Harvard University? 1 should describe it as a spirit of service—not necessarily in what we call public service, but a spirit of service in all the professions, both learned and scientific, including business: a desire, a firm purpose, to be of use to one's fellow men. And that spirit