Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives would speak stronger words than any prophetic warnings. You would respond with eagerness to an appeal to the future and to the rewards that come to them that seek the right. But my sole appeal today is to the past. I want to lead you to a study of a few of the early principles of Harvard's history and thus to a few of the principles of what I think should be a Harvard man's character...
...understand this as an appeal for more ministers - not that; I simply want to say that when you leave college and get to work in your calling and settle in your home, there will be various other interests that will claim you - clubs, professional and social, and political duties; but there will be one institution in the town that has somehow outlived all others, an institution that has sustained the ideal of the Christian family, that encourages education, inspires character, upholds the brotherhood of man, and has the charm of charity - the Christian church. It needs you - your personal interest...
...instructors have all agreed to be present for the picture of English VI, behind Sever this afternoon, and every man should surely be there as the group, to be of any value to those who want it, must be complete. It has been decided to wear caps and gowns; any man whose gown has not come should borrow one, as some 200 have arrived. Men are requested to be prompt so as not to keep the instructors waiting. The time set is half past...
...public do not want the course shortened. - (a) England has found it unsatisfactory. - (1) At Oxford the greater number graduate in four years; Minority Report p. 7. - (b) It has not been popular in America. - (1), Johns Hopkins has not made a success of it: S. M. Macvane, Harv. Mo., XII, 3, (Mar., 1891). - (2) Almost all our new colleges have adopted the four years plan: Ibid...
...time that I visited a little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again...