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Dean Hurlbut, in a brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...
Agricultural labor was paid very little in the early Middle Ages, but as its necessity increased, and as the tools were poor, it became dearer. In the time of Louis XVI, however, the land was at its highest period of cultivation, while the condition of the laborer had fallen to a very low state. The history of property shows the economical forces which make human combinations necessary; through its development labor organizations have been materially affected...
...welcomed by all students. The particular instance suggests a general principle which we would be glad to see observed. Whenever and wherever "Fair Harvard" is sung in a gathering of Harvard men, it should be sung in chorus of all present. The noble song of the College will be dearer to the students when they are thus familiar with it, and will quicken their love for Alma Mater as it does not now when it seems to belong to the Glee Club rather than to the whole College...
From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music...
...stifle the feeling by burying ourselves in the realities about us. At the same time we have a feeling that sadness is out of place at the beginning of the year. Then we reason with ourselves and we find that the friends who are gone are made no dearer by mourning for them, and finally it all clears away again and we are cheerful and hopeful as we were last June...