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...collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart. But you have something more to do; a harder battle to fight, a nobler victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty. If you are to do a real and lasting service for the cause of athletics, and for your Alma Mater, you must show when...
Finally, Jesus pitied the multitude because they had no leader, and He lead then till he died. Never were leaders of men more needed than now. There is no nobler, no more satisfying work than that of helping and guiding mankind - men weary of all professions, however successful they may be; but there is no wearying of the feeling that you have helped some slipping soul to regain lost ground, or have even checked the slipping. This help must be the work of the young men. The older generation, with some bright exceptions, is deaf to any call...
...more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which was the nobler and most inspiring. And it was curious to see at the time the Atlantic cable was laid how much more the political and moral significance of the achievement was dwelt on than the commercial...
...this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader, nobler and stronger, morally and intellectually, so that when they go out in the world they may have something to sacrifice to the good of the country...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...