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...third place, get out of the beaten paths at College and show yourselves individuals. Keep constantly in mind that, while your studies must be first, they are not all. Go out for something; but in choosing it follow the motto, "Know thyself." If you go out haphazzardlike, just for the sake of going out, you will fall. Choose an interest which is really an interest to you and for which you know that you have the qualifications. Splurging here and there and succeeding nowhere is nearly as bad as not trying at all. In either case you need expect...
...admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...
Although Socrates was the father of many philosophies he had no system of his own. He taught the philosophy of philosophy. Taking for his motto the words "Know Thyself," he relentlessly showed up the ignorance of man, believing that it was the greatest obstacle to human knowledge. He said that the only real good was knowledge; the only real evil, ignorance. He taught the foundations of the modern system of reasoning by induction and deduction...
...curious to think how true this is of every member of the hurrying crowds we see around us every day; each with his small function in the world, and each with his fear for something, the loss of which would mean beggary to him. "Be master of thyself" and no material loss can then mean anything...
...short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms...