Brinton Eliot: From Yale to Yorktown (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Brinton Eliot: From Yale to Yorktown

A small and highly-organized community takes an absorbing interest in its own doings, and the acts of its members are of moment. These acts, though viewed with indifference by the world at large, are of immense impor tance to the small and highly organized body, and in such communities it is perfectly possible to have a succession of nine days' wonders arising from causes which are spec tacular only in the fact that they depart from the established routine and customs of the day - customs which, in a world of change, struggle for a time to keep a footing, succeed possibly for a century, but in the end go inevitably to the wall, giving place to better or to worse in proportion as they themselves have lifted or lowered men.

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