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...committee is working to collect the funds. This is an object which Harvard men cannot pass by. One dollar given will keep a child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most. When well-off fellows reflect that the price of a theatre ticket will feed a little boy or girl in Vienna or Warsaw for a month...
...self-supporting student at Harvard, the item of board is the greatest problem that he has to cope with. It is essential that he shall have enough wholesome food to nourish him properly for the mental and physical labor that he must perform, and the difficulty in earning enough money to meet this cost may easily result in the sacrifice of health...
...time this may have been quoted by some optimistic undergraduate. But after so many phantoms of false morning in the days of Harvard athletics, after so many years of Juggernaut-like sacrifice on the part of the players; after an humble but ceaseless endeavor by all undergraduates to nourish in their midst a situation, maimed, tethered and hamstrung, all those interested in sport are by this last absurdity fairly roused into sitting up and taking notice. The only apparent opportunity to express one's sentiments to this august body of invisible patriarchs, whose longevity and circumstantial position of power alone...
Despite the rainy night, Appleton Chapel was filled last evening with those who went to hear the Rev. Phillips Brooks. The preacher took for Lis text the words from lsiah, "He planted an ash tree and the rain did nourish it." In the course of his remarks Dr. Books said that in college life men are too apt to be obsequious to the rich and popular fellow and to overlook or slight the brave, earnest man who happens to be poor or unpopular. A man's life can be developed fully only by considering his supernatural part, by maintaming toward...
...pyramid of sublimity, and the babbling brook murmurs a tender welcome to the musings of genius. The place of toil is deserted. No longer the busy bell chimes our summons, but with full hearts and nature's silent language, we will extinguish the illusive expression of felicity, and nourish the little spark of true bliss until it melts every heart into ecstasy...