Word: deep
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feature that stands out in the beginnings of this college is the deep religious spirit...
...with religion at the basis of our civilization, culture will be sustained, sound learning encouraged and character upbuilt. But we have had no assuring evidence from history or from modern life that without Christ and character will remain true and strong, sound learning be upheld, or culture sustained, fine, deep and ennobling...
...founders of this college had their deep convictions; much of their theology is not our theology, but they had such confidence in Christ as the truth and in his church as the interpreter and friend of truth that they bade this college go on in the search for the truth, knowing that rightly conceived, every discovery of truth in every department of Knowledge would lead to the glory of Christ and his church...
...Harvard cheer is unfortunately losing its distinctive character. In former years the nine "'rahs" came slowly, and the final "Har-vard" was broad and deep; in the Pennsylvania game the cheer could be but little distinguished from the short, sharp Yale yell. Even the "nine long Harvard's" which used to be so impressive are now cut much too short. The leaders of the cheering seldom try to maintain the old-time cadence, and there is danger that it will be entirely disused. The merest hint should surely be sufficient to check this tendency...
...accusation against the students there is some plausible ground, but far from sufficient to justify its sweeping character. Beneath all the seemingly absorbing interest in athletics and social activity, there is a deep current of earnest, strenuous life in the college, the goal of which is attainment to educational ideals, in the very broadest sense in which these can be understood. It is this undercurrent which really determines the value of the undergraduate life and is significant of the tendencies in it which shall prevail. In its superficial aspects the life of the Harvard student is deceiving: those who would...