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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theme of his remarks was "Liberty and Law." In the minds of most people liberty means evasion of law. The ordinary young man, for instance, passes through a period when he refuses to believe that law is reasonable, and acting on this belief he throws off law. But his freedom from law does not bring him liberty necessarily; it may leave him worse bound than ever. A state of anarchy would make every man a wolf, yet every man would be free under that system. Evasion of law, then, is not liberty...
...anarchy or "no law" rule brings the worst sort of servility. All the forces which make enlargement of life possible, education, physical training, religion, are roads to liberty. From this we may form a definition of liberty. Liberty is the transfer of allegiance from lower to higher things. The young man again, who gives up law in his search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest which swallows up all his smaller ones. He may find this higher interest through some...
...Young, Wadsworth House...
...University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the Senior class. Oration by Devereux of Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
...HARLESTON PARKER.CLASS OF '91. - The class dinner will be held at Young's, June 22, at 7 p.m., $2.50 a cover. Names must be sent to M. O. Simons, 14 Hol'y, or the blue book signed at Leavitt's before Tuesday night...