Word: amid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in part: It is very hard for the new student to decide upon his course of life amid the many diverse influences of the inexhaustible Harvard environment Here he finds every possible opinion on every possible subject vigorously represented. He finds a powerful individualistic tendency, but he finds also the social tendency. He has the responsibility of developing his own character, and he has also social duties to his class and literary interests of the College. He sees some men in College who try to be popular and influential, some who lead...
...Yale team came on the field at 1.58 amid great excitement, and the Harvard team was greeted as enthusiastically immediately afterward. The wind was strong from the northeast. Harvard won the toss and faced the west goal with the wind in their favor...
...that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman at the well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality of gift he saw the possibility of the prodigality of return. Marvelous words he uttered often went to deaf, unheeding ears, but once his "follow me" entered...