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President Lowell, the speaker of the evening, pointed out that all colleges were but a means to an end; namely, the uplift of the nation and of mankind. Friendship among them is growing as they realize the unity of their task. The best university is that which strives to correct its faults and this the public will in the end appreciate...
...great significance of the production last night in Sanders Theatre, as Mr. Miller pointed out, is that it betokens the beginning of a closer relationship of our great universities to the professional drama. Mutual appreciation and sympathy will bring about an attitude conducive to uplift and to betterment of the undesirable in the theatrical world...
Added to this is the feeling, pretty common among members of the Faculty and among graduates, that the intellectual uplift in the professional schools is out of all proportion to that going on in the College. Seriously considered, there are few men in the College today who, if put to it, would not be able to fulfil the present requirements in three years. It is also true that the work absolutely necessary for a Harvard A.B. is by no means so advanced as that required in the English universities, and is made ridiculously easy by tutoring and printed notes...
...They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...
...concluding, Mr. Riis urged that college men should aid in this movement to uplift the masses in our large cities. It should be an essential part of the creed of all people, he said, that we are our 'brothers' keepers and are responsible for their lives and deeds, especially when we are cognizant of their need for help...