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...strong and true appreciation in art, and he was instantly responsive to the appeal of music. All that he was and all that he acquired, he consecrated quietly and without ostentation to the service of mankind. His letters to his father show that in his early manhood there was manifested the same spirit which was to become constantly more prominent in his later years...
...President used to say that his spirit went with his students to every field of athletic struggle. It is the Yale spirit of courtesy and chivalry. Athletics are incidental. Scholarship and character are foremost. The University means study, acquirement, manhood, the Christian life. Its ideal is of noble personality, of consecrated character...
...poverty they are driven to desperation and when desperate the are dangerous to the community. To remedy the evil of their situation something must be done which no careless charity can do. Giving a man money that he has not earned only pushes him farther down the scale of manhood and makes the struggle to get up all the harder...
...death his friends have lost a companion attractive alike for his studious tastes, his grace of manner, and his enthusiastic manhood; and his class and college have lost a loyal supporter...
...scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances, it must include a receptive and reverent frame of mind, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a desire to fulfil the great purpose of God, to which work we are called...