Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself stay young. There are few professors whom I have known who do not enter deeply into the lives of some students on the purely personal side, and many have possessed real genius in friendship. I wonder how often the student who fails to find such friendship here has but himself to blame
...opened at Harvard next autumn. This announcement is of general interest because it recognizes modern business as a profession that can make good use of both liberal education and thorough technical education. It is of special interest to those who are about to graduate from Harvard College and who find themselves in one of the three following categories: First, those who have thought of going straight into business, and who may well-consider that the University can now give them, in a thorough manner, the information which they would otherwise have to acquire much more slowly and less adequately...
...object in view, it provides for mental, spiritual and bodily exercise. One of the really great endowments that Northfield hands down lies in the strong friendships that are formed there. For men of common interest in the fundamental things of life come together in a delightfully informal manner and find in each other characteristics that make for strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must be lived in sincerity and integrity with all the energy one possesses. With an attractive sternness the life of highest service becomes concrete and real before...
...first year of the Council will be a critical one and the power it will have will be determined largely by the men who compose it; for an institution which has no directly authorized power from a higher body must find its authority in popular sentiment which must be favorable to it. This feeling will only be favorable when the Council has for members those men who stand out pre-eminently for their personal worth more especially than for their achievements. The committee chosen to prepare the nominations is admirable and they appreciate the importance of the first year...
...view of immortality of man which I shall set forth is, broadly speaking, that of the Buddhist religion. But Buddhism, like many other great religions, is divided into main churches, and sub-divided into sects; we find conspicuously two great main divisions, commonly called Northern and Southern Buddhism, the former having its recognized centre in the north of India, in Nepaul, the latter in Ceylon. We are to discuss tonight the teachings of Northern Buddhism...