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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...further interest in Chapel attendance, Professor Bliss Perry spoke of the importance of voluntary Chapel in reference to college morale, saying that if offers an opportunity for "bringing a larger horizon into view" for a short time every day. "By the mere silent example of doing it," he said, "I hope you will help to maintain the fine old tradition of attending voluntary Chapel...
...care is spent on planning and construction, any such building will eventually become antiquated and useless--even as Hemenway is today, although when the latter was completed in 1879 it was revolutionary in its magnificence. In the "Harvard Herald" of October 2, 1883, we read "It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all the modern college gymnasiums of the country." President Eliot's annual report for 1881 stated that "The Hemenway Gymnasium fulfills the best hopes of its usefulness...
...manful appeal to high motives and farsight in public policy, which is the President's trump, and apparently the highest in the pack. He treated a combination of nations, on substantially the basis of the document that has been circulated throughout the world, as a foregone conclusion. Otherwise he said, the European war would have been fought in vain; the blood of America's sons would have been given in vain; the European peace will be made in vain...
...While attached to the General's staff in the fall of 1917", he said, "I had the honor of seeing much of Major James Shannon, later Lieut-Col., the officer who did such splendid work with the R. O. T. C. Although he disliked staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going...
After referring to Lowell as the man who enlightened England and America on democracy, Professor Bliss Perry said...