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...safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman class contributed so generously as the present one. Fifty-eight dollars! Ninety, Mother Harvard flushes with pardonable pride as she pats you on your little head and sighs with deep emotion. "He is my noblest...
...Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take it all in all, though, President Eliot has accomplished a great deal even if he has not been as wholly successful as he hoped. Our immortal orator, Henry Clay, once said, 'The noblest task possible to man is to teach the young to be earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous.' This Mr. Eliot has done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise him. Let him enjoy his vacation...
...drawbacks are no more, and the helps no less in this age than in any other; the grace of God has never been kinder and stronger than it is now. It is a good time to live, to have noblest and purest ideals, to follow Jesus Christ, the leader of this age and all ages. "Now is the accepted time, and behold, now is the day of salvation...
...vision the people perish." "The word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left to itself can make but little headway while combined with the imagination, it leads to the greatest result. What takes away the pain of the ghastly, gaping tomb, of the faces of distressed friends...
...Since the noblest life on earth is always human life, the literature which deals with human life must always be the noblest literature; and, since the individual human life must always have a distinctness of interest, which cannot belong to any of the groups of human life, biography must always have a charm which no other kind of history can rival...