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...service of the Student Council, and especially of its leaders for the year, the representatives of the Class of 1914, would be not merely unjust, but sadly inadequate. Mondestly they made helpful suggestions; when called upon for service--and the calls were many--they gave thought and labor without stint, in one of the most trying cases of discipline of recent years, performing without flinching and with finest public spirit a necessary, but highly repellent, duty in our College community. Earnest, clear visioned, strong in the vigor of their youth, forgetful of self, they sought but a single...
...person he asked him first his age and then his income, and this was almost literally true. Furthermore, these friendly relationships that he was so ready to establish did not always end with social courtless. Generous in deed as he was in word and thought, he gave without stint, now, perhaps, a contribution of money to a friend in need, now a book from his library, now time and friendly counsel, offered to show appreciation and sympathy or to meet distress. This sense of kindliness was thoroughgoing. He had made it a principle, so he told me, to abstain from...
Henry Morris Stephens delegate from the University of California; brilliant historian in many fields; careless of fame, but spending himself without stint to teach others a love of history...
...spent himself and his powers, without stint and without thought of self, for the welfare of Harvard, which he loved as if he had been one of her own sons; no demand upon his time seemed inopportune; no appeal to his sympathies failed to meet with a quick and generous response. He was a doer of things that make the heart glad, and the number of his kindnesses is known only to the many whom he has helped in word and deed. He felt happy in doing many things, for his loyalty of service had no taint of partiality...
...teaching Latin and Greek. Although from his natural conservatism he had taken little interest in the reform by which the sphere of his power as a teacher was thus enlarged, he availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through...