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...collegiate millenium will find overgrown class-prejudice merged into fellowship which knows no class; it will dawn upon greater accomplishment, because it will dawn upon more advanced opportunities; upon grander prospects, because upon immovable union of action...
...success by the fact that all great reforms have sprung from it as a centre." Rev. E. E. Hale then spoke as follows: "In its pride over the completion of a quarter millenium, the college attempts an enlargement of its religious privileges. Nowhere have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these men?' It is absurd to talk of irreligion and atheism here; for a university is the thermometer...
...remarkable fact that through these three addresses, there runs a spirit of practical Christianity, a desire to impress on those whom they address the need not of dreaming but of work, of work not for the selfish and narrow advancement of self, but for the nobler, grander love of helping those who, through ignorance or poverty, are unable to help themselves. It is a thought worthy of consideration, worthy of more than consideration of action...
...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
...different from those (and they are few and simple enough) which govern Harvard men who live in the college dormitories. With us, those who are responsible for the good order of their buildings are denominated proctors, but in the English universities the proctor is a very different and much grander person. Those whose duty it is in the separate colleges of Oxford to keep order and conduct the examinations are the tutors, most of whom reside within the walls...