Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most heartfelt gratitude of the whole University. It can have been no easy task to come to Cambridge every day, and keep up such an active interest in the work of the men as they have shown, and when it is understood that this work has been combined with thought and responsibility it is plain that the value of their services to Harvard cannot be overestimated...
...fell through. One of the excuses offered was that the mandolins would sound very well to those who heard them, but that there would be very few people who could hear them. The old suggestion being that the Mandolin Club should play in the yard, it was very naturally thought that the noises of the great crowd of people which strolls about the yard Class Day evening would drown any sound that the mandolins might make. The present proposition, which has been adopted, is that the clubs should play on the steps of the Law School. This is a great...
...Bible times one hundred and twenty men, having an absolute faith and trust in God, set out to subvert and did subvert, the thought of the world. It is impossible then, in this enlightened age, to conceive of the influence which three hundred educated men, if they so chose, might have upon the life of their time. The condition, then, of success is that one should put himself in harmony with the infinite Will...
...consider the debt as standing against them, but to transfer it with interest to the generation about to come after. Most men are not in a position where they can give very much at once to their successors in college; they have to content themselves with the thought that the time will come later when they shall be able to add to the richness of Harvard. But a little every man can do even before he steps out of the college. He can give his books, or some of them, to be used by coming classes...
...Miller, is a discussion of the "requisites for a successful study of those complex matters which we call the problems of life." The great difficulty of the article lies in the size of the subject, and the difficulty of grasping it fully, and while it shows much thought it is still a trifle vague and inconclusive...