Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...handsomely bound volume, were presented to Professor Norton: "To Charles Eliot Norton from his students, associates, and friends in appreciation of his services to Harvard University; in admiration of his life-long devotion to high ideals in letters, art, and civic duty; in gratitude for his hospitality, friendship, and inspiration...
...less enthusiasm. No one has ever been able to show by any actual observance that Senior buttons fulfill in any appreciable measure the task which they are supposed to cope with of extending a man's acquaintance among his classmates and by so doing to encourage what variety of friendship is possible in the average class. On the other hand, it is equally evident that class buttons never did any one any harm to be avoided by future generations...
...circle, and the fact that he meets another man in the Yard wearing a class button whom he has never seen before will rarely serve more than to tag him as a member of the Senior class. This sounds heretical to the faithful believer in the complete unity of friendship and purpose in the class, but it is the plain truth...
...Emerson, Whittier and Hawthorne--is gone. He was of that same golden period of American literature which we shall not see renewed in the course of many years, the companion as well as the contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth of intellectual as well as personal sympathies. The country has lost a scholar who stood for the beautiful in art, in literature, and in human life, and spread...
...bewails the ignorance and stupidity which estrauges student and professor from helpful human relations. I have personally seen so little of this estrangement that I cannot write on it intelligently, if it does exist. One of the best things I have gained from my teaching has been the friendship of students; one living among eternal youth--for undergraduates represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself stay young. There are few professors whom I have known who do not enter deeply into the lives of some students on the purely personal side, and many have possessed real genius in friendship. I wonder...