Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...memory of these men alone, whose names stand there on the roll of honor for all time, which moves us. We think of other friends who have run equal chances of danger, and have fought the long battle of life as bravely; men who have made this University what it is, or who have rendered distinguished services to their fellow-citizens and their country - we think of the many men who, leading useful lives in the background, are rarely mentioned, but whose memories are cherished by their classmates...
...that are to be judged by the law of liberty." At the outset of university life, the speaker said, a man comes into a new freedom of thought and action. The restrictions and guiding influences which have surrounded the boy are gone, and the man is at liberty to think and do as he chooses. It is not unnatural that he is tempted to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and to dabble in sin in the sudden reaction from enforced virtue. The absence of responsibility seems the essence of freedom. Yet freedom...
...years ago, I think it was, Messrs. Henry and Frank Higginson conceived an admirable method of securing a large tract of land just outside on the thickly built districts of Boston, about twenty acres in area, for the purpose of putting there a group of medical buildings at some day in the future...
...looked very much in the future, but twenty gentlemen united to buy at an expense of about $550,000 this tract of land on the condition that Harvard University should have, of course, any portion of it which it desired. I think that a most ingenious and admirable way of helping an institution of learning...
...whole the men are strong, of good endurance and are now in good condition, but lack the smoothness and polish of last year's eight and are not, I think, at present so fast...