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Professor Peabody read a portion of the third chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians. He spoke of vesper services, and of the motives which have been the underlying inspiration of them, He defined these motives as self reproach and self respect. These motives come to every man, the one from below urging him to rise to a sense of his obligations, the other from above beckoning him on into the realms of opportunity. The true self respect does not rise out of the man himself, as an isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from...
...show this view to be incorrect. He notes that in teaching geology in the field, walks which twenty years ago surpassed the pedestrian powers of one-half of his students are now quite within their abilities. He notes that a poor physical condition is now a matter of reproach to a student, which he feels obliged to explain in some way. He says, decidedly: 'There can be no question in my mind that the physical condition of the average student at Harvard College is vastly better than it was a score of years...
...editorials are good and cover the usual wide range of topics. The plea for more earnestness strikes at the very root of Harvard's ill-success in athletics and journalism. It is the old cry of "Harvard indifference" which has been a bye-word and reproach for years. The editorial commenting on the attacks upon Harvard which have recently appeared in certain Boston newspapers is a timely and dignified protest. The exaggerated stories and coarse abuse have heretofore been passed over in silence, till now they have become unbearable. It is a question whether a contemptuons silence would not have...
...matter of reproach that we do not wish to do our work in a fragmentary manner - and fragmentary it must be, if we cannot find the reserved books, or if some other man finds them before us? It is a matter of reproach that we sit in our rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week...
...thirty years ago, and manages to intersperse a fair degree of contempt for certain methods which at present obtain among the students. But a class of students whose reading was Dickens, although two or more years younger than the corresponding class of to-day, were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began preparation for college younger," when "schools were not yet nurseries," and when students "liked books that made them think." (Dickens and De Quincey). Nestor's boast of the prowess of his youthful days is paralleled at last...