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...start to the large number of University men present by saying, "I have never gotten much nearer to Harvard than the Stadium, which I visited and cheered myself hoarse in, at Saturday's game, but I have met men throughout this whole country in every walk of life who owe their start to Harvard and to Technology." Then he swung with characteristic vigor into the theme of his famous sermon...
...their lives for their country, should the cause ever come. They are spending four arduous years of their life in preparing for the event, while the undergraduate is enjoying four years of the best the land can give him. Is it not well, then, to recognize the debt we owe to the lad who has taken up his career in order that the good things of civilization may be ours, and give him a hand to show him that we appreciate it? WALTER H. BRADLEY...
...foreign matriculates. The men here from other lands are the men, who, in years to come, will be powers in their own countries. They burn with a deep love for their homeland. Their impressions of America and Americans, to a great degree, are acquired here on the campus. We owe it to ourselves, to the University and to the nation, to meet and to know these students who are virtually our guests. We owe it to ourselves, chiefly because we can learn much from them that will broaden our sympathies and understanding. The Pennsylvanian...
...single illuminating contribution to this most vital topic of the world's thought. What we had a right to hope for was a leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective...
...yesterday afternoon in commemoration of the 19 University men who have lost their lives in the European war, and in recognition of those men who are still engaged in various branches of activity in that war. "If these men see us here now they will appreciate it, for we owe them our gratitude and our respect. They have done a great thing, and we shall be the better for it. This influence which they have had will never perish, but always be remembered by the men of the University...