Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Friday evening Dr. Hale showed us how every Harvard man in years gone by had been "in the right side" in national difficulties. He was pleased to see that today Harvard's sons had put themselves to the front of a movement for a "government by the people," i. e., control by the Republican party. Although Judge Hoar opened his speech by deprecating that Harvard should appear as a partizan, yet he continued, "If it has got to be done, I at least am glad to see that she is 'on the right side.' " And then he goes...
This form of reasoning is pardonable under the enthusiasm generated by a crowded political meeting and a brass band. But it is worse than bad taste for either party to claim Harvard as a protecting Deity in a quarrel which no sane man a week from election day would regard as having the same moral weight as the Rebellion. How the honorable Democrats found out so conclusively that old Harvard men from 1636 to the present era would have voted for Cleveland and Tariff Reform can be referred to the same source that inspired the assertions of Friday night...
...seem to sniff at political earnestness on the part of Harvard men. Let duty to our country is but one of the duties (perhaps the highest individual one) taught us by our Alma Mater; Mind, it is duty to our country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than...
...light of the world, I am the light of anture." The speaker said that when the sun rises over the earth and finds it in darkness it sends its light abroad to every nook and corner; this is the parable of Christ sent on earth to redeem man. It is not strange that we turn from evil to good, for man has the highest possibilities in him which by Christ's aid can be carried out. We are children of God, not of Darkness. We talk of man's character as being a separate thing from his spiritual nature...
...MERRILL, Capt.DRUM AND FIEE CORPS. We want every man connected with the corps to be at the gymnasium at a quarter after four. We need every man in the college who can play a cornet or picolo, Every man, including the bone corps, must be on hand this afternoon...