Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faint in life's wearying race...
...stem life's surging tide...
Breaks into life and bliss...
ABOUT the time of Commencement a paragraph usually appears in the daily papers to the effect that "one hundred and fifty liberally educated young men have been sent out of Harvard to do their part in shaping the life of the rising generation." May '75 play their part well! But besides these hundred and fifty graduates, every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note...
...first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than at present; and under this system it seems as if a greater number would become students for life. With the present system, if a student thoughtlessly wastes the first years of his course, or is prevented by any cause from doing his best, there is no remedy. He has lost all chance while in college of distinguishing himself as a student...