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college duties. They have come from shoddy 
homes to mix shoddy with the honest stuff of 
Harvard life. It would be better for them, for 
us, and for all their associates, if they never set 
foot on scholastic ground. Still they serve as 
a foil to the noble-hearted men of wealth who 
are the glory of a college, — men who are strong 
in their willingness to aid others, pure in heart, 
active in body, loyal to the ideals of the Uni¬ 
versity. 
One reason that the wheel of duty turns hard 
is to be found in the multitude of human atoms 
pressing against it. The present system of col¬ 
lege government was well adapted for the man¬ 
agement of five or six hundred men, for it is an 
easy task for an officer of keen sympathies and 
a good memory to carry even more than six 
hundred men in his mind, and to know their 
faces, names, and general record. Now that 
the six hundred have become two thousand, and 
the same system is applied, each officer being 
expected to know something of every student, 
the memory gives way, interest weakens, and 
discipline through acquaintance becomes im¬ 
possible. Here and there individual students 
stand out conspicuously and become well-known 
figures in the crowd; but it is more likely to be 
through their success in football than in their 
studies. The man who attains “ Grade A” in all 
