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THE articles that have lately appeared in the Advocate and Crimson discussing Harvard Indifference and The Influence of the Nation have excited more warm discussion in College circles, it would seem, than any other articles published here this year. In our number to-day will be found two contributions on these subjects of marked importance, and taken in connection with what has already appeared, they seem to cover the ground of discussion so well that it is probable we shall publish nothing further in regard to them. The general interest taken by undergraduates in this discussion has made us so sceptical as to the real existence of that indifference, that we fear any future agitation of the question will partake of the nature of the desecration of a dead issue. Our many exchanges, who could scarcely be expected to take a very lively interest in so merely local a question, we would anticipate in the criticism of here affording further evidence of "Harvard's egotism and self-conceited superiority," and would say to them that such introspection as this discussion implies has a value for our College far beyond the mere results of the discussion itself.

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