Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there that freedom develops a man. It tests whether...
...college, a young man is given the opportunity, because of his freedom, to train himself to choose rightly. Two of the most important fields in which he can exercise choice are his studies and his friends. He should choose those studies in which he takes a live interest and in which, because of that interest, he will work with real pleasure and happiness. In that way, he will learn the pleasure of work and will get into the habit of doing work with lively interest. That attitude will be most valuable in after life, as everything worth while...
...Harvard is different in its attitude toward this association than are most other colleges toward their philanthropic enterprises. The voluntary membership, which is here entered upon for purely unselfish motives, makes the work as a whole more sincere and effective than at many other colleges. The association is still young and one of you will institute improvements as yet unthought...
...promising, as a large number of men who won points this year against Yale or in the intercollegiate meet, will be available. Of the 24 men who won points this year the following will return: Captain W. Minot '07, L. P. Dodge '08, P. C. Lockwood '07, B. L. Young, Jr., '07, A. S. Cobb '07, M. H. Stone '07, M. S. Crosby '08, J. F. Doyle '07, W. M. Rand '09, O. F. Rogers, Jr., '08, C. Brinsmade '07, W. A. Hanley '07, B. T. Stephenson '08, A. G. Grant '07, and G. E. Roosevelt...
...Quinlan '07, W. D. Thompson '08, R. Edwards '08, P. C. Haskell '08, and E. G. Reed '08. In this department, the team should be as strong as, if not stronger than, it was this year. In the absence of E. J. Dives '06, B. L. Young '07 and J. S. O'Brien '09 will probably be the strongest men in the 440-yard dash, and both should improve with experience...