Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse us with tales of the present morning Chapel, or rather lack of it. But we think that the time is here of Harvard men to come to a realization of the fact that a happy medium is desirable. Therefore we say pathetic, humorous, and disgraceful...
...rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most one of the last shreds of Harvard indifferences. If these men would attend Chapel regularly, we are certain that an increasing number of new students could say that, though Chapel was not compulsory at Harvard, they liked to go to the services and generally did because they were inspiring and because the best men went. We all of us willing to do what is "au fait" but few of us have the moral courage to do a thing unless...
...instant assume that I object to a serious-minded Radicalism. That type of thought may for all I know be specially now needed to cope with the problems today presenting themselves. In England these problems are acute. I venture to say that the unrest is already far deeper-seated in the English proletariat than it is here; and surely America has need of some well-balanced, if Radical, thinking to meet existing conditions. Toward the solution of the problems of today the universities, both of America and of England, will do well to bend their energies. That, however...
Scofield Thayer contributes some graceful "Anapaests" and there are verses by J. D. Adams and C. H. Weston, both in the freer forms now in vogue. Neither fully escapes the danger of such verse--the prosaic--but both have something to say and say some of it well...
...than mere outward success will depend. Yet these sinecures, we hope, have taught them the principles of real success outside. The class of 1913 has come through the many vicissitudes that have threatened it with flying colors and leaves us now with our best wishes for the future. We say only au revoir because we shall see many of her men in Cambridge in years to come and because we shall know that wherever they may be they will all wish that they were here...