Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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One who has lately visited the Trophy Room of the gymnasium must have noticed an addition to the trophies, two old bats and two huge leather balls, that look almost out of place among the relics of victory on the football and baseball fields. One is tempted to call them...
MY DEAR SIR:-The Harvard class of 1841, "quorum pars minima fui," had while at college within its own ranks a Football Club, a Baseball Club, and a Cricket Club. The bats and balls of the last named club have been in my possession since our graduation over fifty years...
It is in such graduates as Dr. Brooks and Dr. Peabody that we find embodied the noblest examples of Harvard men. If it were possible to point to any two persons as types of the best and greatest which Harvard can claim as her own. we could choose none more...
I might, if I were inclined, found this sentiment of affection for Harvard upon the honor she has done to me in adopting me as one of her own sons; but I prefer to say that I make the gift with still greater pleasure as the president of a sister...
...normal condition the larger part of a man's actions are imitative. Society owns and uses him, and wisely so, but the imitation is normally not the most prominent thing because of the individual's idea that he is having...