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...Harvard is to assume the position of American university, that is, if she is to attempt to reach with he influence not alone the youth of New England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which...
This week-end many a California Catholic business man will cross the threshold of El Retire San Inigo, putting a spiritual wall between himself and the cantankerous world. San Inigo, founded by Jesuits, is the latest unit in a fast developing chain of "retreats," which soon may gird Catholic America from coast to coast...
...Comrades, gird your swords tonight...
Every presidential aspirant began to count his fingers and then his toes. "The race of 1924 is open to all," said he, "Gird on my sandals...
...harder in their years at preparatory school than they ever do afterwards in college, are inevitably influenced by the contrasting difficulties of admission to the various universities whose fame is greatest throughout the land. Certainly the Harvard requirements are not of such a kind as to make school student gird up his intellectual loins for further frenzied effort...