Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of '89. This annual Baccalaureate service is always well appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge...
...well known here as he has preached in Appleton Chapel several times during the past two years. On those occasions his earnest. eloquent words have been most helpful to all whose privilege it was to hear them. He will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the influence of the preachers over the life of the university...
...Taussig on "Political Economy and Business," since, as the author writes, "nearly every undergraduate takes a course in Political Economy sooner or later in his college career," it will aid many students in their choice of electives to be informed of the real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual and with the causes of his success or failure" in business. For "the business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic...
...loaned on proper terms to students who would otherwise have to buy. The plan is not a promiscuous charity, but simply a design for getting the greatest possible use out of furniture without allowing to a second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college are nowadays so great that any means of reducing them is a matter of great importance for the University. A similar plan has been arranged for a Loan Library of text-books. Almost everybody has a shelf full of old text-books of which he would be glad...
...Speer, Penn., Valedictory; Richmond O. Aulick, D. C., Political science; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Penn., general excellence; David Bovard, Jr., Penn., chemistry; John M. Brooks, Ohio, mathematics; George H. Carter, N. Y., general excellence; Harry G. Drummond, N. J., physics; Edward R. Hewitt, N. Y., general excellence; Robert H. Life, N. Y., philosophy; Edmund Y. Robbins, N. J., classics; Thomas H. P. Sailer, Penn., general excellence; James Y. Stebbins, N. Y., belles lettres; Howard C. Warren, N. Y., mental science...