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...think you will remember this coming to the University as one of the most cheerful memories of your whole lives and it will remain to you even when you are old. The admission to Harvard University is an achievement which comes to most of you after many years of toil. This is an influential and powerful society which you have joined, and in this society you share in the hopes and in the honor of the other members. We welcome you to this body of studious and devoted men, and also to something more, to a place more bound...
...well-known state of affairs that there are ranks in Harvard College. There are the rich and luxurious, those who have departed so far from the ideals of the fathers that honest labor honestly done is something disgraceful. There are those that have never known anything but lives of toil and sacrifice for the results they have; those to whom labor and poverty cannot be disgraceful because these are the central facts of their lives. I say we are all aware of this state of affairs: but I doubt if in the memory of many of us the contempt that...
...free thought, but we find Christ Himself reasoning with men and asking them their opinions. In these days, as always, every seeker after truth is following Christ's teaching. Our colleges and universities have been founded by Christian men for the advancement of Christianity, and built up with Christian toil and sacrifice...
...would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That is the race that can be won only by long and patient toil. All Paul can say is "let us run with patience." There are many who do not run at all, who walk, who creep, some even who sit down. All of us are sometimes discouraged and are tempted to throw up the race because it is so hard, or so monotonous...
...dress or observances, it is very easy in time to forget that the day is Sunday at all. Now it is just as essential to our physical well-being as to that of the laboring man that on one day of the week we lay aside the cares and toil of the other six days. Many a student learns this lesson too late...