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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University is to give something to that University. And yet there are those who, ignorant or forgetful of this dedicatory address, even in the very building that is a monument to generosity and devotion are endeavoring to get something for nothing from the University and its benefactors in a mean way. The Union was intended for the use of all Harvard men, but all who use it are expected to contribute their share towards its maintenance...
...least one benefit to be derived from the present plan is the abolition of the phrase "Freshman beer night." To the uninitiated and innocent outsider, there words are assumed to mean monstrous things and the use of the words together to the imaginative mind denotes all manner of treacherous pitfalls and what not for the innocent Freshmen. To those who have experienced the peacefulness of these affairs, such conjectures are highly humorous; still, it is a good thing to have the phrase dropped from our colloquial vocabulary...
...three reasons for its being made a graduate rather than an undergraduate department: foremost, because we set the Graduate School apart, as the policy of the University; secondly, Harvard recognizes that business has a right to graduates of professional schools; and thirdly, in aim and tendency and purpose we mean to ally ourselves with research, and to search for a wider truth. We feel that in the Graduate School of Applied Science we are not giving our men the key to wealth, so this new school has been established to further economic development and business organization...
...Henry Van Dyke describes with his usual felicity of style the tranquilizing and uplifting effect made upon a toil-worn man of the world by a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor. Subjective interpretations of musical masterpieces are fraught with danger, as the same music may mean one thing to one hearer and something else to another. But Mr. Van Dyke has shown discretion in selecting for his possibly too rhapsodic treatment a work of Beethoven which is intensely subjective and even, as far as absolute music can be, definitely autobiographic. It is well known that...
...life including all the fragmentary individual interests and pursuits which is of the essence of religion. And hence it is that religion brings salvation from narrowness. In these days of high specialization religion has become indispensable to the worker whether with hands or brain just because it does mean that sense of a wide horizon which redeems one from littleness and pettiness by keeping alive the sense of vast possibilities, while it also braces him for his chosen task. And so for their own sake and for the sake of the society in which they aim to be most highly...