Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think every undergraduate who was at the Pierian Concert will agree with you in your editorial on Wednesday, that there is for the musical clubs "a field which offers opportunities for great improvement." The Band and the Pierian already have a realizing sense of their place and duty in the University, but the other clubs could certainly do more towards promoting a healthy College spirit by giving an occasional concert in Sanders Theatre. In addition, such an evident desire to please the undergraduates would enlist their sympathy in any future moves for Christmas trips...
...cheering, which must have much encouraged their team. This was partly due, no doubt, to the fact that their cheerers were better massed, but that alone does not explain it, for the volume of the Harvard cheer was greater than that from the opposite stand. The trouble was, I think, that our "Three long Harvards and three times three" is slow, drawling, and unenthusiastic. It typifies everything which Harvard is not, although fairly representing what our enemies think...
...grounds for dissatisfaction seem therefore to be in the indiscriminate sale of season tickets. Heretofore, it has not appeared necessary to restrict these tickets to undergraduates and graduates, as the sale outside of the University was limited principally to the parents and relatives of the students. I do not think even now that a large percentage of season tickets has gone to outsiders who have no interest in Harvard; but I am sure that all will agree, after the experience of this year, to some kind of a restriction...
...sometimes tempted to think of religion as a negative force in life. Its real value, however, is in raising us to a plane above low temptation, and in leading us on to higher and nobler actions. The attitude of indifference towards the conduct of others, so long as we ourselves are not affected, inflicts indescribable harm, which cure can only be remedied by men of courage daring to stand up for justice and truth...
...than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated to love his country, and, if need be, to die for it. The culture which leaves...