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...home and friends to go to a foreign country where everything is uncertain, is not so inviting as work in one's own country. Yetan earnest, fearless spirit will not be daunted by this, and college men who feel themselves naturally fitted for foreign missionary work, can do nothing nobler than to go into...
...left the University in the last few years will be deeply interested in the matter. Mr. Bolles had as the central idea and the chief motive of his life here at Harvard, the support of everything which tended to build up the University and to make it better and nobler. And in his support he included movements started by the authorities, by the graduates, and by the undergraduates; but it is fair to say that to the latter class, the undergraduates, he attached his greatest sympathy and affection. To help the undergraduates, no matter how much self-sacrifice it called...
...students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about all art that comes anywhere near perfection which commands respect and admiration; and the man who represents this best art, whether he be painter, sculptor, musician or actor, must...
...shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should relieve humanity. All men, even in our own day, are seekers, eager and earnest in their quest for something larger, nobler, and diviner than the present affords. It is the spirit which draws 3000 men to this place, which is the moving spring of this life...
...wife form the most interesting account we have of him. They were written at all times, when at his business, when drunk, when penitent or when in the lockup, where he sometimes found himself. They are all good humoured and natural and he comes out, strange to say, a nobler fellow for their publication...