Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint of a flabby character...
...will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
...picturesque figure," Professor Palmer has written, "has left us, a prodigious scholar, a stimulating teacher, a heroic character, a playful and widely-loved friend." And at the close--"That elvish figure, with the unconventional dress and slouching step, that face which blended the infant and sage, that total personality, as amused, amusing and intent on righteousness as Socrates himself--happy the university that had for a long time so vitalizing a presence...
...talk a great deal about our prosperity. The well-to-do have become wealthy; the wealthy have become opulent, yet "the poor are always with us." Moreover, their poverty is no whit lessened by the prosperity of those who have so much. What satisfaction may they draw from this season, if its sole meaning is one of abundance...
Undue pessimism has not value, yet it would be well for every man to remember what this Christ-tide has meant through the centuries, and what it ought to mean to us now; the time to practice the greatest of all virtues, charity...