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...figure of John Harvard in the Emmanuel Chapel bears a scroll whereon is inscribed 'Populus qui creabitur laudabit dominum.' We recognize, sir, and we admire the way in which Harvard's university bore its part. We recognize and we admire the hold Harvard University has upon her sons, the greatness of the people in whose midst it is placed, and the greatness of the service which the University renders to the people...
...little beauty of expression: though here and there invention flags, and metaphor and word are drummed up at the exigencies of the rhyme. "Chanson," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07, has the charm of simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish Man" are immature and crude: one is exaggerated attempt at farce, the other a sort of tragic sketch handled without skill. "The Three Worlds" ruins...
...Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn, conducted the vesper service at Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. He preached a short sermon, taking his text from I. Corinthians, iii., "Let every man take heed how he buildeth." We are free to build whereon we like provided that in the foundation there is strength, and a means of upholding us. No matter what sect we take as our guide and to what we pin our faith so long as the ground work be a true religious feeling. We have the whole world of thought and motive open to us; and all the good...
...peace-crowned life whereon all blessings wait...
...high dais whereon was set the King