Word: things
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building of such a club will be a very expensive thing and the graduates will certainly not subscribe unless the undergraduates show that they want it. It seems to me that without doubt we do want it, and that the sooner we point out to the graduates our desire, the better...
...them to reassert its superiority and to show once for all that the two defeats sustained were exceptions. All eyes will be upon these men, and if they win, as they ought, they may be sure of the gratitude and appreciation of those whom they will represent. The first thing to do is to secure a keen competition for the honor of a place on the team. May the best men get it, and then make the most of their opportunity...
...blindness which suggests mental weakness, that takes a firm grip on large numbers of Freshmen every year. They have to be told upon all possible occasions where they can do most to benefit themselves, and there is no end to the necessity of prodding them on to do things which they ought to have sense enough to do of their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified and respected position before the College public, that one thing...
...Gordon said: The supreme function of Christianity is the increase in righteousness of life. You who have passed here four years of your life must have often asked yourselves, "What is the greatest thing in this world" And after these years of questionings, the conclusion is forced upon you, that it is the duty of each man to see to it that his own life shall rise to its greatest spiritual height...
...University sends you into the world as missionaries, to organize our social interests in Christian order, to put the supreme thing first. Great sacrifices have been made in many homes that you might come here and your careers must be more than mere material successes. Cherish always a vision of the possible life and seek to live up to the ideas which are held of you by those blinded perhaps by parental love. It is the crowning glory of the American college that she exists for the nation; that as she receives recruits from all over the country...