Word: true
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call his death an untimely one, and yet, is it not as true today as it was nineteen hundred years ago, in the time of Him whose birthday we have just celebrated, that it is the quality of a man's life and not the quantity which is the only true test of earthly life? It seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning...
...Marshall Newell it was indeed true that "None knew him but to love him, nor named him but to praise." And what was the secret of this love and respect that he inspired in all who knew him? I think it is best answered by one word, character. Through his whole life his high character was stamped on whatever he did, whether at his studies or in athletics, or while working on the far away Berkshire farm, or engaged in his business occupation of the past two years Never did a man better exemplify Harvard's motto of "Veritas...
...come to us, that we have been able to appreciate the value of his influence. If we look back upon the time of our association with him, we know him to have been possessed of a high and pure character; of great ideals, to which his life was exceptionally true; of a morality that was strong enough to take no thought save that which was right, because it was right and true, and could not be led away by what others might think...
...editorial in the December issue of the Monthly expresses a complaint felt only too strongly by the readers of our college periodicals. As the writer says, why is it that men insist on choosing subjects with which they have no real sympathy? The result is occasionally creditable it is true, but lacks individuality and a lacquered effect is only too common. At intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature...
...Waldo '98 led the meeting of the Christian Association in Holden Chapel last evening, taking as his text, Proverbs, IV, 3-14, What is true Wisdom. The meeting was interesting and well conducted. G. Gleason '97, E. B. Barton '98 and F. Dobyns '98 were among those who took part...