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...necessity for an adequate merchant marine as for a national defense is so well known to New Englanders that it may be unnecessary for me to mention it here. At the same time, the national defense is one of the principal points and it may be well to refresh our memories regarding that subject...
...product "is in the tangible form of human character and service," as Chancellor Brown of New York University recently said; then it is possible to draw some conclusions concerning the much-discussed 'extra-curriculum' activities. Someone remarked not long ago that a "grad" returns to see classmates, not to refresh his memory (if any) of Horace. Mr. Gavit says that "the student's becoming depends on the kind of men he comes in contact with...
This afternoon Harvard and Yale will play their 40th annual football match. It will refresh the memories of older graduates to look back over the scores of those years and it will make undergraduates who did not see or read of those games realize that in that long stretch of years Yale has displayed an almost astounding superiority...
Photography is a means of preserving and renewing visual images, just as writing is a means of preserving and renewing thoughts. Photography is an artificial extension of memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will...
...hospitality, we are entranced; for a time we think ourselves in a different world, where, indeed, we really are; and, when we push on again into the desert, we first think and then write of our past pleasures. Wellesley, Lasell, and Boston University, nay, even the Annex, have given refreshment to many a Harvard traveller, and doubtless will refresh many more to come; but not of them but of still another oasis would I write, of one that is just as refreshing, just as hospitable, just as shady, with its sparkling springs of gentleness and beauty just as cool...