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...again at the dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...
Many of the newest college buildings are four stories in height and the loftiest rooms are only reached after a climb of four long flights of stairs. Many a time the weary student reaches the top floor, knocks at the door of the man he seeks and finds, alas! that his knocks meet with no response. We all know how discouraging it is and wish that some remedy could be found. This nuisance of climbing stairs would be much lessened if a system of indicators was only in vogue here. Such a system is in use at Yale...
...before him. "When a man becomes a junior or a senior he begins to think seriously of the profession which he shall adopt. The first thing he should do is the settlement of a plan for this life and the next. Young men should cultivate the teachings of their loftiest moments and remember what they will want when they have a fireside of their...
...They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs by an elderly lawyer and soldier of the loftiest principles of private morality. If he has a large following of 'the boys,' too, it will certainly be a hushed and deeply-moved crowd, for these rude natures are not insensible to the influence of openly-avowed spiritual regeneration...
...Comment. Professor T-y is unquestionably, assuredly, and immeasurably the highest and loftiest Hebrew scholar of his age. He stands head and shoulder above his contemporaries and the men of his age. In the name of the students of Harvard College, ay, in the name of the people of Cambridge, we offer thanks for this golden opportunity of listening to Harvard's greatest Oriental linguist and Hebrew scholar...