Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speaker frankly admitted that in spite of all arguments, immortality was, after all, a hope. And yet, he said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world...
...said R. H. Oveson 2L., the next speaker, a great deal of advice about your future affairs, and I hope you will receive it in the best spirit. You are to be congratulated on entering Harvard, because there is no other university where Freshmen stand so high. An interesting thing to watch is the general sifting of men in a class. Here a man stands for what he is worth. Let every man support every cause connected with 1910, so that when he graduates Harvard University may feel it is to be congratulated on having the Class...
...verse is entirely different in tone and on the whole distinctly well done, "Corporation Football" is the sort of thing that ought to be valuable years from now as an admirable expression of the undergraduate feeling toward the reform of football by the authorities. "The Cruise of the Scholarship" is cleverly done, and the verse is excellent. "Victor and Vanquished" would be better were it not for a suggestion of those heroic bits in "Pieces for Recitation" which afford so much of the material for grammar school declamation...
...most striking and encouraging thing about the Union in the past year has been its large and inclusive membership (it has never had so many members); and the use which this membership has made of this splendid institution. The Union is no longer regarded simply as a convenient place in which to hold meetings or lectures. It is a place to "drop around to" for a meal, to read and study, to get telegraphic in which Harvard teams are competing, or to meet one's friends. The great and surprisingly varied possibilities of the Union are being realized more...
...team to lose because they are outplayed is a thing to be deplored: for the team to lose because the University does not care is a thing of which to be ashamed...