Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gave their lives to save the state from ruin, not with sorrow but with hope. The dead no longer are ours; they belong to history. We now think only of their value to the state. They did not give their lives to win our sorrow or to gain the fame of posterity; all that they gave they gave for their country. They were indeed men of arms. The Union soldiers did not take up arms for war's sake, but for the sole reason that there was no other way to obtain the end they sought...
...foremost stand has been taken by a Harvard man. In athletics or in anything else, so long as something worthy of the honor of Harvard is in a man's keeping, so long as the man who represents Harvard carries with him the feeling that part of Harvard's fame is his, so long as he remembers that the next thing to victory is honorable defeat-I trust that the tide of defeat is bound to turn...
...quantity which is the only true test of earthly life? It seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning who met his death under similar conditions with true Christian heroism, Edward T. Cabot, Samuel Dexter and Alward, that we ought to rejoice and be thankful that they were with us and that their lives were what they were, rather than to lament that their...
...Harvard, with the exception of three years, since 1878. By paying a visit to the upper room in the library Harvard men will have the privilege of seeing the class photograph albums for many years back. A goodly number of the men there represented have since risen to fame and honor...
...Harvard, with the exception of three years, since 1878. By paying a visit to the upper room in the library Harvard men will have the privilege of seeing the class photograph albums for many years back. A goodly number of the men there represented have since risen to fame and honor...