Word: means
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must be lived in sincerity and integrity with all the energy one possesses. With an attractive sternness the life of highest service becomes concrete and real before a man's eyes. This does not mean that every man will choose the profession of a foreign missionary; by far the larger part will not: but it does mean that whatever profession or calling he may adopt, in it he will be a missionary of the deepest things of life, and a minister to the life...
...athletic day has arrived; a day without the concentration of interest that goes with the eventful football Saturday, but of equal importance because of the number of contests and the number of Harvard athletes who are taking part. A dual meet with Yale, in which a victory will mean permanent possession of the nine-year cup, in itself has created unprecedented enthusiasm, not only because of the trophy at stake, but because of the conflict of authorities in picking the probable winner. In addition the Harvard nine meets its Princeton rivals in the first of the championship games. Our record...
...scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. The track team, needing one more victory to complete its claim to the nine-year cup, will try its strength against Yale, and the baseball nine meets Princeton in its first championship game. Both contests will be hard-fought, and in both a victory will mean much. Show the teams that we are behind them, therefore, by a record-breaking attendance at tonight's meeting. Encouragement will help and we must all do our share...
Percy W. Mackaye '97, whose tragedy "Sappho and Phaon" is reviewed below has attained the reputation of a dramatist and poet of no mean ability. After graduating from Harvard he studied and traveled abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America...
...vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because there is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing irrecoverable in anything you may have said or thought or done. If for any reason you cannot believe or have not been taught to believe in the infinite mercy of Heaven, which has made us all, and will take care...