Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot began by saying that the enthusiastic assembly of such a number of Dartmouth alumni as a testimony to the great work of its president, was a prodigious reward. The common notion that our one ambition in life is the pursuit of money is a slander on the American people, for they are ever ready to give rewards to which money cannot be compared, rewards given in reverence and in gratitude. Many alumni of Dartmouth College, people never known by President Tucker, have respected him for a life of service into which money never entered. The long duration...
There are many branches to the medical profession, in some one of which any temperament can find congenial occupation and in all of which there is great opportunity for doing good. The science of medicine touches human life more closely than any other branch of learning...
...Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating programs for the new regime and such a clear and interesting account of what our great cousin across the seas does for her sons, abounds in suggestion for the enrichment of student life here. The photographs used in illustration enforce what the author has to say of the architectural beauties of Oxford, fill the Harvard reader with the ever-renewed regret over our wasted opportunities here, and bring up the question once more as to whether our architectural situation is without remedy...
...Reed's verses on A Winter Run are far above the average of our College verse. A familiar phase of Cambridge life is here seized and rendered with a fine feeling for its real picturesqueness...
...your own sentiments and convictions. A high enterprise needs no appeal to loyalty, and an unworthy one is often supported by it. The agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language and argument...