Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of the fact that the Senior class is now making arrangements to place a memorial to Dean Shaler in the Living Room of the Union, professor Sabine, Successor to the late Dean of the Scientific School, has consented to say a few words at the Senior class meeting this evening. It is an opportunity that no Senior should nelget, not only to learn something of a marvellous personality, of which the personality, of which the present College word known all too little; but also to realize just why it is fitting that the Senior class should take the first...
...Already it is possible for one newspaper writer in this country to talk to ten millions of Americans in a day. If the young graduate were taken back to old Athens, he would not miss a chance to have his say in the public square. The editorial column of a great newspaper is the public square of today. The man who talks in that column has the opportunity of the orator that addressed the ancient Athenian crowd...
...work as hard as he can for the millions of human atoms unknown to him, as he is unknown to them. Let him find satisfaction in good work and be content to say with the old philosopher of Weissnich: Two writings of mine, not indeed known as mine (for what am I), have fallen, perhaps not altogether void, into the mighty seed-field of Opinion; fruits of my unseen sowing gratifyingly meet me here and there. I thank the Heavens that I have now found my calling; Wherein, with or without perceptible result, I am minded diligently to persevere...
...large a number of years that, according to actual experience, they do not even keep pace with depreciation. In other words, the Corporation lends money to the Dining Association on a wasting or vanishing security. Moreover, with the plant in good condition, the income of the investment, to say nothing of the principal, is wholly dependent on the steady running of the Hall...
...could not do this if it were her principle to do so. But is this the case? The Faculty has this principle; the undergraduates and no small share of the graduates are heartily opposed. It is not right to say that such dictation would be standing up for Harvard's principles...