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...general work of the team can be made superior to last year's if the old men will only waken from their lethargy, put their shoulders to the wheel, and work for all that is in them...
...powers that had been gathering for a score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise and the fulfillment seemed just beyond. Few years have passed since the University underwent similar suffering. It is such events as these that waken us from our wonted placid composure, and thrust home upon us the real significance of our life here. It is a time when the common grief vivifies a sincere sense of fellowship among us, and we realize what warm sympathy we shall ever hold for the fellow student who today...
...being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges, she has gathered about her name a mass of tradition and sentiment which will ever charm the imagination, and waken the enthusiasm of her students. Furthermore, Harvard has inherited from the past not only these blessings, but she has acquired that tone of broad culture which time alone can give. In her the lapse of years has done so much to remove crudities that for a long period yet she need...
...prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully awake to the important questions of the day. And there is no better way to waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear them passively; but if some such incentive as a prize stirs us thoroughly, we will be very likely to hold our interest even to the future. Accordingly, we hope that attention...
...recess, like other Christmas joys, is now but a memory of a pleasant past. The call "once more to the breach, dear friends" comes upon us, to waken us from the dream-like reality of our vacation. So absorbed had we become in scenes in other places, other duties and other pleasures, that Cambridge and the semis had almost vanished. It was necessary to rub our eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only...