Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...liberally as possible. Men have been appointed to collect in the various dormitories and clothing should be given to them alone. Those men who live outside of the dormitories may either leave things at Phillips Brooks House, or leave word there where they may be called for. For the sake of getting the clothes to the front as soon as possible, wagons will be sent around after 7 o'clock this evening for the collections...
...keeping a man awake; and as sleep is of such vital importance to the teams, we ask every man to make a point first of keeping quiet himself and second, of reminding anyone else, stranger of friend, who may need the hint, of the necessity of quiet for the sake of the teams. L. P. DODGE. C. R. LEONARD. J. RICHARDSON...
With President Eliot go the best wishes of the University. He is going on a hard journey; one which would tax any man's strength; but one which he is undertaking with his characteristic boldness for the University's sake. He is carrying into the West the true academic spirit of Harvard, appealing to our graduates and to the scholars of the western states, and through them spreading the reputation of the great educational system, of which he was chief founder. It is partly through the efforts of the alumni that a larger western representation may be secured...
...When, to use a detestable phrase, you go out into the battle of life you will be confronted by an organized conspiracy which will try to make you believe that the world is governed by the idea of wealth for wealth's sake, and that all means which lead to the acquisition of that wealth are, if not laudable, at least expedient. Those of you who have fitly imbibed the spirit of our university--and it was not a materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought...
...would like you to study that man. I would like you better to be that man, because from the lower point of view it doesn't pay to be obsessed by the desire of wealth for wealth's sake. If more wealth is necessary for you, for purposes not your own, use your left hand to acquire it, but keep your right for your proper work in life. If you employ both arms in that game you will be in danger of stooping; in danger of losing your soul. But in spite of every thing you may succeed...