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There is a quaint belief, conceived in boredom and born out of terrific sophistication, that all Freshman classes are, as a group, alike. The numerals, the names, and the faces change, but the composite similarity is timeless. Fortunately for the world in general and for Harvard College in particular this epigrammatic obituary of the still-born hopes and illusions of youth is quite incorrect. It is assuredly a neat phrase and accompanied by a certain shrug of the shoulders and flick of the ash it assumes the proportions of a social gesture. But it is untrue--gloriously untrue...
Today, in Appleton Chapel, Harvard College gives manifest evidence of its share in this timeless celebration of its great president. There will be no more parades. But the spirit behind this afternoon's service will be that which will survive all the flags and academic glories that ever celebrated this man yet alive...
...corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent has but to mutter a command and the groveling object of royal displeasure is led away to have his hands chopped off, his wrists dipped in boiling oil, his back flayed by a U. S. barbed wire lash. Everywhere the timeless usages of Ethiopia are interwoven stressfully with Occidental permeations. But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through...
...time, we cannot follow. But his character is so universal that even Renan cries: 'Whatever the surprises of history, Jesus will never be surpassed.' Men of all generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their unsurpassable and complete Ideal."?From Manhood of the Master, one of the books by Dr. Fosdick which has taken his "circulation" well beyond the million mark...
...present, he breaks bread with phantoms; in these pages the dead stand up and breathe, the living are the ghosts. His words-like the matches the young lady strikes to read epitaphs by in the darkening graveyard-light, for a shining second, Death's crabbed and timeless legendry. Equally exquisite in verse and prose, the beauty of the book makes this brief review an impertinence...