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...crowned with the wide interests and the broad culture of a true university. It is this university culture and training which teaches you to adopt a wider course, to consider your business in a broader way, to recollect the world and to think of society. But do not misunderstand the meaning of the words "public success." Again it is the University which points out to you the difference between quality and quantity of approval; which tells you to have a calm confidence and buoyant enthusiasm and to do your duty for duty's sake. Remember that some of our noblest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baccalaureate Sermon. | 6/15/1891 | See Source »

...misunderstand this discourse and think that because I have not touched the level of a sermon that I have passed over religion. On the contrary there is no better way to serve God than to do your work faithfully and regardless of popular applause. Above all things remember to keep Christ always in view and "to turn to Him for the richest embodiment of manhood and in his life rest in confidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baccalaureate Sermon. | 6/15/1891 | See Source »

...Times is not the only one of the New York papers which, in attempting to criticize the plans for a dual league, have shown that they wholly misunderstand the nature of such a league. All these critics have seemed to conclude that if Harvard and Yale formed a dual league they would straightway refuse to compete with any other colleges. We should like to say once for all that Harvard men have no such conception of a dual league. We cannot speak for Yale, but unless we are greatly mistaken, she will unite with Harvard in protesting that neither college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/26/1891 | See Source »

...misunderstand the term freshman. Among the ancient Hindoos, by whom the word was first used, the sterner sex alone was capable of imbibing Greek, Latin and elocution; but tempora mutantur, and with the advent of the nineteenth century it was necessary for women too to be acquainted with empiricism and algebra, and therefore the old Sanskrit word has lost something of its significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...hope our readers will not misunderstand us. We do not wish to advocate organized agitation and disturbance, on the contrary, we are as glad and proud as anybody, that such things are no longer possible here at Harvard. We simply wish to remind the Powers That Be, of the fact that although their students may have outgrown the old ways of enforcing attention to their needs and grievances, the Powers themselves, have not outgrown the habit of kindly permitting the students to have needs and grievances. Gentlemen of the Faculty, Corporation, and Overseers, remember that now the college papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/18/1884 | See Source »

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