Word: young
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...called upon to worry now about the questions which seem to be very important for the future, but our duty is to do what we can to solve the problems of today and to help our own generation. How, then, can a young and well educated man best serve his own time? First what can we do to better the social conditions of our generation? Doubtless there are arising great problems which call for hard work from skilled men, but we are not all needed to become experts in sociology. But every man can do something by bringing a broad...
Secondly, how can a young man best serve his country? What is his political duty? Here, as before, we do not consider the specialist, but rather the average man. We have here before us, in Memorial Hall, a perpetual reminder of the patriotism of our fathers who "served their own generation by the will of God, and fell on sleep." Now how can we serve our country, how can we too be patriots? Each one of us has something to do with the moulding of public opinion and the choosing of our leaders. Let us all stand for national honesty...
...cast-off clothing which is being collected by a committee of students will be distributed to the poor of Boston through the medium of the Andover House. This institution is particularly well-fitted for the purpose; its work is being carried on at present by four young men, all of whom are college graduates, and two of whom were graduated from Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses...
...Therefore today we, the elders, call upon you, our successors, to share with us in the emotions which the undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
Professors Wendell and Francke are to be away, it being their sabatical year. In the absence of Professor Wendell English 23 is to be omitted, English 12 will be given by Messrs. Gardiner and Young, and Messrs. Young and Abbot have been added to the instructors in English B. Professor Francke's chief courses are to be taken by Professors Von Jagemann and Schilling, while his less important courses will be omitted...