Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed were unknown then. The gymnasium then was small...
...undergraduate in the sixties was to make his nose reasonably comfortable on the grind stone. Few of the men then would have studied conic sections or logic if they had been left to their own choice. Few of the young men today who take pleasant courses get as good training or go out into the world with as good a preparation as the men in the sixties did. The best places in the world are as hard to make as places on the crew. What the world wants is men. It is hard indeed for the young fellow who hasn...
...Storey said that when he recalled his college career the scenes which he remembered best were those when news from the war was heard. Very often the newspapers contained accounts of battles and lists of Harvard men who had died for their country. Thirty years ago, on Good Friday night, Lincoln was assassinated. All day long the bells in Cambridge tolled, announcing his death. On the day that General Lee surrendered the college gave a holiday to celebrate the good news. At the Commencement of that year Lowell read for the first time his "Commemoration...
...junior year. It was a war for freedom. Such a war offers an opportunity for great bravery and selfsacrifice, and Harvard had her share of heroes in Shaw, Bartlett, Davis, Wilder, Dwight, and many others. While war offers a great opportunity for heroes, peace offers an equally good one. Lowell said, "It is peace which is the nursery of the virtues that shine...
...Storey closed with words of good advice. The world, he said, was full of good things, and there is nothing in the world which a man cannot have if he is willing to pay the world's price for it. The coin in which he must pay is his life. Pecuniary fortune a man can lose several times, but life can only be lost once. Every man, therefore, should be careful of his life and remember that the country needs men today just as much...