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...week. Examine the profit number of extra-curricular activities, all of which are worthwhile and a few of which undoubtedly suit your tastes and abilities. If you consider all these things, Freshmen, we are sure that you will pass beneath the gates of Harvard ready--as the words engraven on one read--". . . to grow in wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, a band of thoughtful men filed into the Forsyth Theatre in Atlanta, Ga. They were pious men; they had been to church that morning. Deep on their fronts engraven sat public care; in their eyes flickered determination. When all had reached their places, one arose and, assisted by a large chorus, caused the proscenium to reverberate with the swelling notes of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Sa-aints of the Lo-ord", with "Ro-ock of A-ages" and old-time hymns. The odor of sanctity had settled strongly upon that lay temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Atlanta | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Engraven on the bowl are the names of Ichaya Kumagae (1916), R. Norris Williams (1917), William T. Tilden (1919), Clarence J. Griffin (1920), Howard Kinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Tennis | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...living, breathing Bible; tables where Both covenants, at large, engraven were; Gospel and law in's heart had each its column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Harvard Graduate. | 12/9/1890 | See Source »

...college then as now kept a very careful eye upon the main chance in the matter of finances. Rule 13 is: "Every fellow commoner shall bring a piece of silver plate to the Colledge to the value (at the least) of three pounds, with his name engraven thereupon, which he may have the use of while he shall abide in the Colledge, and shall leave it to the propriety of the Colledge when he departs from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN 1655. | 6/8/1882 | See Source »

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