Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration must depend upon material evidence of a desire for club tables and a University dining hall, that it cannot go ahead on mere guesswork that the interest is there but unexpressed. It is, we take it, largely for the purpose of forming a definite conclusion as to the strength of this interest that the meeting today has been called. Under these circumstances it would indeed be unfortunate if the attractive plan which the Administration has to offer is allowed to slip into the discard merely because of the inertia of that part of the student body which...
...alliance, Probably we shall always approach subjects from opposite sides. You began in chemistry, I in theology. But nothing can touch my deep affection for you or my gratitude to the man who more than any other shows me perpetually how to rely on the Eternal for personal strength...
...which give me especial satisfaction. The first is your statement that you like "to work with me, whether in opposition or in alliance." That seems to me a rewarding outcome of a long asociation. the other is your remark about my relying "on the Eternal for personal strength." I belong to the barest of the religious communions, and I am by nature reserved except with intimates and even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible to a close observer...
There is no doubt in the world that college spirit counts in football. The sense of solidarity with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams...
Many of us at times have opposed President Lowell, have considered such and such a policy mistaken. Such occasions will probably occur again. But opposition at scattered points is inevitable where strength, conviction and vision are qualities of a man in a responsible and outstanding position. There has been, so far as we know, nothing but pride in the general outlines of his building, in the strength and lasting quality of achievements like the tutorial and concentration system and his handling of the admission requirements. Harvard has been indeed fortunate to have been guided in succession by two such Presidents...