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Century -- "Vista," by George Cabot Lodge '95; "Heroism in Everyday Life," by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., h.'86; "Darkness," by Alfred A. Wheeler '76; "The Canada Sable," by Francis Sterne Palmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The December Magazines. | 12/5/1902 | See Source »

...first there seems to be a touch of softness in "Jack Halter's Crime," but as the tale goes on we find a purely college story with clear glimpses of heroism, sentiment and love thrown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/25/1898 | See Source »

...think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning who met his death under similar conditions with true Christian heroism, Edward T. Cabot, Samuel Dexter and Alward, that we ought to rejoice and be thankful that they were with us and that their lives were what they were, rather than to lament that their lives were not as long as we would have wished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tribute to Marshall Newell. | 1/3/1898 | See Source »

...neither mental nor moral confusion as to the real meaning of this Memorial Day and this Memorial Hall. I unite with the late William J. Potter of the class of 1854, who warns us not to be caught by the sentimental sophistry that since there were valor and heroism and courage and fidelity to conviction on both sides, we may commemorate those virtues of both armies as American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Service. | 6/1/1896 | See Source »

Fidelity to conviction is praiseworthy, but the conviction is sometimes very far from praiseworthy. Slavery and polygamy were convictions. Such monuments as Memorial Hall commemorate the valor and heroism that maintained certain principles-justice, order and liberty. So long, then, as there is a distinction between the principles of liberty and those of slavery, may this Memorial Hall stand for those who fought for liberty and not for those who fought for slavery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Service. | 6/1/1896 | See Source »

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