Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glad to hear that th History of the University is rapidly progressing. It is to contain one hundred and twenty large heliotypes of the college, etc.; many are now ready, and are very successful. Some of the old engravings of the last century are very interesting, and the four hundred and fifty pages or more of reading matter it is to contain, as poems, essays, historical and otherwise, on the College, will render it a valuable work...
...hold of the custom lies mainly in that conservative instinct which makes us all slow to give up an old usage, even though a mischievous one; and doubly so when its abandonment may seem due to lack of spirit. This instinct is strongest where experience is least; and young men can hardly be expected to resolve not to do what their predecessors for generations have done, unless they receive in this course encouragement and support from the emphatic counsels and warnings of those whose opinions and advice they have learned to respect and follow...
...system, to depreciate the liberty accorded to young men. We know that the constant cry of the public is that Harvard gives her students too much liberty, thereby implying that we know not how to use it. Prove the contrary, that in the end we may not hear the old story of "I told...
...close of a College year always calls forth remarks which, although trite in themselves through annual repetition, yet express sentiments which never grow old. It is the old, old story, but the characters are changed with every year. The wheel turns. New men fill the old places, while the old, as in a game of ball, are forced off their bases to make way for the new. This is inevitable. It is life. Nevertheless, it is hard for some men. They regret the old, are fearful of the new. Under all the festivities of the season there flows a strong...
Blessed with gifts of old age and glad youth...