Word: come
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Students, you come here to be educated in the lecture-room and in the laboratory by your teachers, and to be educated by your daily life with each other; and it is a question which form will profit you more...
Looking back in life I can see no earthly good which has come to me so great, so sweet, so uplifting, so consoling, as the friendship of the men and the women whom I have known well and loved-friends who have been equally ready to give and to receive kind offices and timely counsel...
...saplings will grow until they become the oaks to whose shade you may always return for cheer and for rest in your victories and your troubles. Be sure that you will have both, for the one you will win and the other you must surely meet; and when they come, nothing will steady and strengthen you like real friends who will speak the frank words of truth tempered by affection; friends who will help you and never count the cost...
...this education, this joy which we would bring to you with your new house. We hope that in years to come, you on returning to Cambridge, will experience the same feelings that we have in Memorial Hall, when you think of your comrades here, who in due course will have done nobly their part in life...
...youngest proctor. And if you see an older graduate enter the hall, go and sit beside him, tell him the College news and make him a welcome guest, for this is the house of friendship. He wants your news and he likes boys, else he would not have come. Old men are more shy of boys, than boys of old men. I have been one and am the other and ought to know. Like the Arabs, nail wide open your doors and offer freely to all comers the sait of hospitality, for it is a great and a charming virtue...