Word: spokes
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President Tucker spoke from a text taken from Romans XII-15: "Rejoice with them that rejoice." For the average person it is harder to rejoice with others than to share in their sorrows. It is of course true that one is as much a duty as the other, bnt rejoicing is often a matter of conscience, and the dictates of conscience are never so strong as those of the heart. It has been said that "Life is neither a pain nor a pleasure, but a serious duty to be taken up, carried out and laid down." This is not true...
...Moore spoke briefly on the power derived from the knowledge of men which may best be had at college. The summit of this knowledge is a fuller acquaintance with our own selves, for we constantly meet with forms of excellence which are not our own but which we may imitate. Even the temptations we meet with help us to a fuller self knowledge, for in mastering them we are mastering our own natures...
...Peabody spoke of the need today of aggressiveness in our religious life. Many men adopt a negative view of religion, avoiding evil and slipping through their daily existence in a neutral way. This is better than positive sin, no doubt, but it is a poor way of living. The need of good men in the world is greater now than ever before, and surely they ought to be found in such an institution as this where men come to develop and broaden their ideas and their field of usefulness...
Memorial Day service were held in Sanders Theatre yesterday, under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society. The Hon. John Read of the class of '62, delivered the oration. He spoke in part as follows...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 spoke last night before the Religious Union on the "Transcendental Movement in New England...