Word: reproofs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...servants have invested their wealth at interest and have made new fortunes. To these the master gives great wealth and cities to rule over. One of the men, fearing lest he should lose what he already has, hides his money and gains nothing. To him the master gives only reproof for not having taken advantage of his opportunity...
...permitting them to enter the kingdom of heaven. The unfaithful one is cast into outer darkness. These parables are applicable to college life. A student is apt to shirk his duties at the beginning of the year and his failure at the mid-year examinations corresponds to the reproof of the master. If he persists in not taking advantage of his opportunities he is sure to be cast into outer darkness at the finals...
...memorial to Frank Bolles in the interest of the poor man will be remote from any system of competitive prizes; it will be something capable of enlargement by the enlistment of student pluck and cooperation; it will be instinct with charity and a simple, firm reproof of the spirit of mendicancy...
...also hurts the name of the university. Such a display of ignorance in regard to questions of the college cannot but convey the idea that little interest is taken in them at all. More serious than this, however, is the case where the question takes the form of a reproof or a challenge. Then it is the place of every Harvard man to be able to stand up and defend the actions of his university against outside attacks. But in order to do this he must know the ground on which he is standing. He ought to follow closely...