Word: going
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this year, as usual, on the day after Commencement, Thursday, June 29. On this day the members of the Harvard chapter their annual reunion. A business meeting, open only to members of the Society, will be held at 10 o'clock in Harvard Hall, after which the procession will go to Sanders Theatre, where the literary exercises will be held at 12 o'clock. President J. B. Angell, late of the University of Michigan, will deliver the oration, Professor F. B. Gummere '75, of the English department of Haverford College, will be the poet, and Hon. J. D. Long...
...have all spent some time at Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs and athletics and other elements that are interwoven in the sum total of elements which go to make Harvard's world; and let us not introduce into this discussion any hasty argument on the qualifications which of course exist upon every general statement that may be made. If we are to be heroic, we must, first of all be frank...
...life in this respect, and while we have believed that it is impossible ever to arrive at any ideal state we have still been of the opinion that there are many inherent obstacles to the right sort of intercourse which are capable of eradication. I remember how we set going Freshmen receptions some years ago, and how we welcomed Mr. Higginson's gift of the Union as tending to remove these obstacles. These things like the special efforts now being made for frequent smokers and other large informal gatherings are evidences of the general feeling that has existed...
Such is then the first message of religion to an eager, forward-looking, undiscouraged, modern life--the message of expansion, liberty, spaciousness, hope. The normal healthy life hears the summons to go forward and welcomes the guide who opens the door. What is it to live but to pass from room to room of the great house of experience and to find each successive room more ample and satisfying...
...gates, built in memory of a Harvard man, you read as you go in "Enter to grow in wisdom," and as you go out "Depart to serve they country and they kind." It is gate that is always open, and it swings easily both ways. Its inscription is a message of your College today. You have entered to grow in wisdom, now depart to serve your country and your kind...