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Comparatively trivial accomplishments have a disconcerting way of appearing side by side with the mightiest deeds in the history of the great. It may be purely a weakness for the anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind as in degree.
The important thing for the present is, however, that amidst all the hurry and rush of the times, there has been one man,--President Lowell,--who has not been too busy to provide for a possible future return to the art of living and eating when all good trenchermen will gather around the ancestral plate.
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