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...chance to unite as one body, with one interest. This dinner should be the beginning of a better acquaintance with one another. In less than a year the present juniors will be electing their class officers and preparing for the day of graduation. Consequently whatever tends to bind the men together into a feeling of fellowship, should receive hearty encouragement. We cannot urge too strongly the necessity that every one should feel that he owes it to his class to go to this dinner. The old custom of junior dinners should not die out with Ninety-four, but should rather...
...influences which bind its teachers to the University are" says President Eliot, "chiefly: The dignity and stability of the institution; the perfect liberty of opinion; the freedom in teaching - every teacher teaching as he thinks best, except as the more experienced teachers may persuade and inform the less experienced; the great resources of the University in books and collections and the fact that any teacher can at any time cause books desirable in his department to be bought by the Library; the separation of Cambridge from the luxurious society of great cities; the propinquity to the resources of Boston...
...come to college for the realization of our powers. May this desire not defeat itself? The man must care for his ideal, must bind himself back by the ties of the home he has left. Duty must be in and for everything and then beauty - of character and life - will result...
...reactionary force. But in the moral world he will ever be to us a revelation of the beauty of holiness. There, where, to quote Professor Royce, the intelligent man of today is praying hourly for proof that there are spiritual chains worthy enough and holy enough to bind his will and his reason - there He may be to us a Saviour if we will...
...true uplifting and emancipation of our life comes through the recognition of the higher ties and relationships which bind us. I mean that the progress and elevation of the soul is a progress of discovery, not that it is independent and masterless, but that the lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...