Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Government Commission for the preservation of works of art in the Rhineland he is rendering inestimable services to the lovers of art all the world over. The fact that for years he has been travelling companion to the German Crown Prince, shows that he is a thorough man of the world. His visit to our University is a most exceptional opportunity for the study of the history of art in its broadest aspect. KUNO FRANCKE
...both friendly and intimate. Within the past eight years, ever since the formation of the Phillips Brooks House Association, there has been a gradual but noticeable change in the religious atmosphere at Harvard, a change due directly to the efforts of the Association, founded in memory of a man who stood for the best there is in life, Phillips Brooks. The step in life you Freshmen are now taking, he said, is from boyhood into manhood. The dividing line between the two is more difficult to determine for a man entering a college, than for him who enters directly into...
...human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that carries man and his fortunes traverses an ocean where the winds are variable and the currents unknown. He can do little to direct its course, and the mists that shroud the horizon hang as thick and low as they did when the voyage began...
...regret that it is so short, and a selection from the recently published "Ode to Harvard" by Witter Bynner '02. Many have felt that this ode marks a new epoch in Harvard literature; at all events its vigor and vividness and charm make it a poem that no Harvard man--and this is especially true of undergraduates today--can afford to pass...
This will rarely come about through classroom associations, because of the size and nature of most Freshman courses. It is only by entering enthusiastically upon one of the many fields of activity which Harvard offers--athletic, literary, philanthropic, etc.,--that a man comes to realize his true position in the University and to come into close touch with his classmates. A few men err in devoting themselves half-heartedly to any interest for which they feel a passing fancy, but they are in the minority. We are confident that a serious application to some interest outside...