Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...selfishness and give himself to the service of others. It showed how in particular the duty came home to Harvard men. In the college, more than anywhere else, there is a vast store of energy, vitality, health and wealth of all things of which the world has need. The problem which consciously or not is decided by each student is whether in the use of these he shall consult his own exclusive advantage, or shall consider that he holds...
These interviews have been noticeable for the manly, unassuming attitude of the men, their frankness, and their ready and intelligent response to the recommendations made. As each man's individual problem is considered, his choice of work is not limited to what he happens to prefer among the few things he may have heard of, but the whole range of charities is laid under tribute to furnish him the task that will be most satisfactory to him as well as most valuable of itself, and that will tend best to prepare him for those forms of public spririted service...
This Student Volunteer work, therefore, is simply a cooperative effort by young men at Harvard to meet the problem thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...
...expected and believed that the members of the Association, in order to provide for such of the unusual requirements of the period of establishment as may still continue during the next year or two, will cheerfully continue their membership and their membership fees until the last stage of the problem is solved...
...taken with regard to the football game next fall, or rather to understand her motive in taking it. She can never have expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness...