Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...privilege, Mr. President, to bring this salutation from Harvard to Yale on such a memorable occasion; but I count it a much higher privilege, in response to the invitation of your executive committee, and to your own cordial welcome, to say a few words as an old servant of American education and a representative of the private endowed colleges and universities of the East...
Harvard students, we ask for you every joy and every blessing which has fallen to our lot, and we ask of you higher aims and hopes than ours, together with better work and greater achievements, for your problems will be harder and your tasks greater than ours have been...
...Paul Revere Frothingham followed Dr. Peabody. No history goes back far enough, he said, to a time when men were not worshipping some God or higher power outside themselves. There has been the religion ot outward mysticism, that worshipped the woods and sky and stars and sea, because they were vast and awful and unknown, and there has been the religion of introspection, of brooding over the mysteries of men's own souls; and lastly there has been the religion of work. This is the religion of which Jesus spoke when he said: "My Father worketh hitherto and I work...
...reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that in democratic governments the black flag of corruption is apt to be followed by the rd flag of anarchy." The article closes with expression of confidence in the ultimate awakening of the nation's conscience to higher ideals...
...Charles on Saturday. The weather was very unfavorable and the water in the basin so rough that smooth rowing was impossible. In spite of these bad conditions, however, the row was the most satisfactory the crew has had yet. Bancroft drove the crew better than usual and rowed a higher stroke than in any of the other long stretches this year. At times the crew showed a tendency to go to pieces but Bancroft kept the stroke steady, and, on the whole, the boat travelled much better than it has before this year. The time was not given...