Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Most of the men have tried hard, and, meeting so many discouragements, they deserve praise for it, victory or no victory. Some of the men have not taken their poor work to heart, and one of the men has shown on the field a childish lack of self-control. These things are not to be forgiven, but, on the other hand, they are not to blind students to the good effort made by the other...
...recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
battle, not yours is the splendor of sacrifice of life and love for a great cause, but it is yours to serve faithfully, if with less glory, under the flag of honor,- of honesty, of purity, of self-forgetfulness, of devotion to duty. That is the perpetual flag of Harvard. See that you hold it up steadily, always in advance, and pass it on with its colors bright to those who shall receive it at your hands. Thus shall you become worthy companions of those whom we honor today...
...humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which was common to our Harvard soldiers...
...moments of deliberate respite, he is open, genial, and engaging; but he seldom is at leisure. At work, he seems an immense will, regulated by very powerful and very precise intellectuals. He is grave, austere, self-sufficing, reserved, and the embodiment of dignity. If only his point of view is taken, his position on every question is found to be supported by the soundest logic; but, under the necessity for much action, he seems at times to give the benefit of the doubt too easily in favor of his own point of view. On this account, he rouses such frequent...