Word: talking
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Dean Briggs contributes a much needed article on "College Honor" to the October number of the Atlantic Monthly. It is in a way an elaboration of the talk given to Freshmen in English A and received by too many of them with polite indifference. To read the beliefs and hopes expressed in the article regarding the character of the undergraduate of today should be a welcome opportunity to anyone interested in college life. To quote part of the opening paragraph: "To an American college, the word of all words is 'truth'. 'Veritas' is the motto of Harvard; 'Lux et Veritas...
Next Saturday, Mr. Julian Curtis, chairman of the Harvard-Yale Regatta committee will meet the New London Board of trade and the Harvard and Yale crew managers to talk over the policing of the course and other business connected with the races. Mr. W. P. Henderson of the new "American Henley Regatta" will also be present to represent the interests of that plan...
...essential purpose of the Harvard Union to afford a social opportunity within the reach of all Harvard men. This has been the authorized statement from the very start, and if it means anything less than this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than wasted. And if this is the fundamental object, this consideration should govern the annual dues, rather than any notion of what might be desirable in other respects. Economy is an absolute necessity in any general college enterprise. The self-supporting student who carries his own burden can bear only a light weight in addition...
There is an old story of a South Sea missionary who spent some weeks building an elaborate sun-dial for his flock. When it was done the natives were charmed with the new machine. For three days they did nothing but admire it and talk about the new era it had inaugurated in the life of the island. The fourth day they appointed a committee to care for the treasure. And thereupon the committee, after much consultation and three adjourned sessions, proceeded to surround it on all sides with a wall and a roof a foot thick. Since then...
...want to be men of reality in our conversation. Flattery, deceit and slander are evidences of unreality in our speech. As we would avoid these in our talk, so we should fight for sincerity in our minds, and let soundness and genuineness occupy our thoughts. We should be real in dealing with our doubts; inconclusive thinking leads to agnosticism. We should be men of reality in dealing with our temptations; temptation is not sin, but it is sin to yield. Finally, we should be men of reality in our efforts to build up character and faith and to extend Christianity...