Word: true
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...slipping. This help must be the work of the young men. The older generation, with some bright exceptions, is deaf to any call for it. This call must come to the universities, with their intelligent, strong young men. Shall these beautiful temples of learning educate men to love the true and the beautiful and to know good and evil only for their own sakes, or for the sake of the whole world...
...visible life, what we might call the picture of life, but the life indeed is in Christ and is eternal. This eternal life is what is sought, or at least it is the chief object of study, in all colleges. Mere knowledge amounts to nothing beside the possession of true life. So what we are looking for in college is the truth of God, that having found it we may know Him and live in Him the eternal life. How dignified it makes life seem to think that our life is really in God, that He is living...
...door work has had to be omitted. The university crew candidates have not been rowing in the tank in any regular order, but have been changed about frequently so as to give each man a trial for the different positions in the boat. The same thing is true to a certain extent in regard to the freshmen, although of late they have been rowing together in the first boat as follows: Stroke, Tweedy; 7, Brewer; 6, Langford; 5, Ireland; 4, Cadwalader; 3, Monk; 2, Noyes; bow, Gerard...
...have been asked to call attention to the fact that but few seniors have yet taken the trouble to sit for their class pictures. While it is doubtless true that class spirit here at Harvard is gradually dying out and is already nothing like as strong as it is in most other American colleges, it does seem that in this case, where no expense is incurred, even those men who do not care anything for a complete class album, might put themselves out a bit for the sake of those...
...aware the state gives the college no material help and it is a question whether any lustre is added to our fame by having the name of a state linked to the title. Certainly it suggests contraction, limitation. So far as the deeper consideration is concerned, is Princeton a true university? - we believe there is no hard and fast definition of a university and the conclusion must be left to individual decision. But the president and many who know most intimately our animating spirit as well as our history and present capacity are fond of talking of 'Princeton University.' Next...