The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (Volume 28) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Appo'.onius the moron paused, the smoke wafted out of his nostrils. He looked sad and melancholy. A cigarette ash fell on his bare chest, upon which I noticed that there was no hair. I could not but feel how weak and insignificant he was. I wondered if that is what men come to when they devote their lives to thought alone. Late that night, or rather early the following morning, I left Ap- polonius still reclining on his couch, steeped in smoke, and buried in philosophy. THE RELATION OF COLLEGE TO LIFE. By LLOYD K. GARRISON, '19. WHAT is the real source of the unrest in college? Can it be ascribed simply to the natural instability that has resulted from the war, or has it an actual significance and can it be concretely expressed? That it has a significance and that it can be expressed is evident to any undergraduate who has returned to college from the Army or Navy with hopes set high on finding there a life rich in intellectual satisfactions and intense with the spirit and the promise of future service. Such an undergraduate, by the contrast of what he formerly expected and imagined with what he has found, is for the first time able to interpret his own feeling of impatience and discontent. And this feeling is not confined to a few. It is experienced equally by those who have returned for the sole purpose of getting any sort of a degree with the utmost possible dispatch, by those who have returned because they cannot decide what else to do, and by those who to all appearances are elated with the change of environment and the renewal of old friendships. There are two main causes of this discontent. In the first place, there is no real incentive to learn, no atmosphere of learning, no impulse toward scholarship that animates the whole college. But on the contrary,...