Word: honored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...memory of these men alone, whose names stand there on the roll of honor for all time, which moves us. We think of other friends who have run equal chances of danger, and have fought the long battle of life as bravely; men who have made this University what it is, or who have rendered distinguished services to their fellow-citizens and their country - we think of the many men who, leading useful lives in the background, are rarely mentioned, but whose memories are cherished by their classmates...
...burning the fire of high ideals, enthusiasm and hope, otherwise you can not share in the great work and glory of our new century. Already this century is bringing to you younger men, questions and decisions to the full as interesting as the last century brought to us. Every honor is open to you, and every victory, if only you will dare, will strive strongly and will persist...
Ours is the past and to you the future, and I am sure that the welfare and the honor of Harvard is as safe in your hands as it has been in those of your forbears...
Among the guests of honor will be the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the head-masters of several of the leading preparatory schools, and a number of people who have benefited the Union in various ways...
...other articles by Harvard men in the current magazines the most interesting is Dean Briggs's essay on "College Honor" in the Atlantic Monthly...