Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...secure places on 'varsity teams. They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner they will show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will...
Christmas time, he said, brings us to a serious realization of Christ's relation to us. The gladness of Christmas is a thoroughly legitimate joy. It commemorates the greatest benefit that has ever been given to mankind-an assurance of salvation. Since this is so, the feeling of God's gift to us ought to bring us thankfulness and joy. Yet we are apt to stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain...
...only welfare is our eternal welfare. Our highest glory on earth is to cause others to forget our particular individualities, and, by showing in our lives the glory of God, to bring others to a conception...
...source of great pleasure to the alumni and present members of the University who may reside in the cities which the clubs visit. These trips have always been delightful to the men who have taken them and there has never been anything in connection with them to bring discredit on the University. The clubs have always remembered and will always remember that one disgraceful act in any city will undo the reputation for gentlemanliness which Harvard men have made in that city. We feel sure that the social side of Harvard life will never be dishonored by trips...
...hand, there is everything to be said against seminars. It is perfectly evident that they tend to defeat the real purpose of the University, for they not only make it possible for men to stay here without working, but they even encourage a shameful neglect of duty which must bring discredit upon the University. The minute a man wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing, they...