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...undergraduate scholars with the productions of famous scholars and professors. The crux of the question is this: the college man is just about in his prime physically and can performs athletic feats as well as they can be done; the undergraduate scholar, on the contrary, is just beginning to ripen intellectually and does not attain his full mental development until many years after graduation. Hence undergraduates and the public are not interested in puerile performances, which represent only training for higher things, whereas they are intensely interested, in athletic performances that cannot be bettered...
...Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...
...vesper service yesterday Professor Everett's remarks were suggested by the parable of the Prodigal Son. Too many he said are striving for husks. Husks have their place in this life, for how could the grain ripen without them, but husks should not be made the aim of life. Money, power, pleasure, friendship, even religion may be converted into husks, if pursued with base motives...
Diagrams were shown by Mr. Peirce by which the formation and organic growth of plants were illustrated. It was shown how fruits and flowers ripen, and how much of their dissemination depends on the shape of the pods of the plants...
Such was the origin of our boating here, which was to ripen later into the H. U. B. C. Of course no such thing as an inter-collegiate race ever entered into the heads of those who took part in these races. They engaged in them simply for the fun of the thing, and underwent no severe system of training such as is now in vogue at present. They frequently made excursions in their boats, and occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight...