Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...others are heartily in favor of sending a delegate from the University as well as one from the Harvard Club. But the University has no funds for such purpose, and it devolves upon the Harvard Club to raise the necessary money. If every member of the club will renew his subscription for the coming year (which is now due) the club can send a delegate to the convention; while the present opportunity to further the object of Civil Service Reform ought not to be lost by those who have not joined the club but are in sympathy with its purposes...
...University deserve hearty support. Heretofore the little that has been done in the way of gymnastic training has been desultory and unorganized and little incentive has been offered for competitive work. The formation of an association whose members shall compete for places on a team will be sure to renew interest in what was once one of the most important branches of athletics at Harvard...
...began by saying that I had no wish to renew the Battle of the Books. I cannot bring myself to look upon the literatures of the ancient and modern worlds as antagonists, but rather as friendly rivals in the effort to tear as many as may be from the barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both...
...these grammatic flats and shallows." The blossoms of language have certainly as much value as its roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work, but the true end of Culture is to give it play, a thing quite as needful...
Those who wish to renew their lockers, can sign the lease now. After Class Day they will be leased to the first applicants...