"Moral sentiment is of very slow growth." To this aphorism there are few exceptions. But it seems to us that in the case of our own University and its students, there has been a great change within a short time in its moral sentiment as applied to many things. The childish method of going through college with as little work as possible, cutting as many recitations as is allowed, because it is "manly" so to do, hazing, etc.; all this is now done away with, because of the growth and education of public sentiment. Yet all this change from a childish to a manly mode of looking at the college course has been made within a very few years. Growth of moral sentiment in this direction has been rapid. Will not some of those same students who smiled at Prof. Lowell's remarks a few weeks ago be the very ones who in a few years will be foremost in upholding the new reform? We think so. We believe that moral sentiment at Harvard has grown rapidly of late in many, and in right, directions. It is growing still, faster perhaps than may seem possible even to our best friends.
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