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Those who believe it appropriate seem in most cases to be of the "younger generation"--those who only know of the struggle from history. It is most natural and right that we should desire to wipe out the bitter fact that there ever was a division of our country, and also to express in some fitting way our esteem for those who fell in the Confederate service. It seems to me that Memorial Hall is a very inappropriate place to express this sincere sentiment...
...closely related to law with them, especially in the case of religious commandments such as "Thou shalt not kill." Homicide is the origin of private feud. Apart from the injury done by homicide, there is the great sacramental sin which has to be purified. The only persons who can wipe out this sin are the priests--the sorcerers of religious magic. The curse was the greatest power the priest could use to persecute the criminal...
Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...
...confident that among the number present that night were many who in their own minds, at the time and since, have condemned the whole proceeding, but that unfortunately can not now wipe out the impression made upon hundreds who are only too apt to believe from the behavior of comparatively few that Harvard College is but another name for idleness and dissipation...
...class has still plenty of chance to redeem itself. Having suffered defeat in foot ball it should bend its energies with the greater determination to the development of a good crew and nine. A victory in base ball and another on the water in the spring will wipe out the recollection of this defeat in foot ball. And they are all that will...