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...charity, as the Pope says, and in charity alone. Not charity in the sense of alms-giving. It is the charity, that teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Justice is the only enduring end to peace. Thus our problem is the discovery of the true principle of justice...
President Donald of the Junior class next spoke. He deplored the prevalent impression that there is no enthusiasm at Harvard; but said that it was undeniably true that there was not a sufficiently united spirit, one in which all men felt they had a part. This he attributed to the disintegration which was inevitable with so many smaller clubs. The object of the proposed club is to remedy this, to weld all interests into one, and to create a Harvard spirit. He referred to Pennsylvania, where the athletic spirit had been brought out and intensified by the University Club...
...course certain advantages connected with the two-club system which should not be underestimated. The chief of these is the stimulus of club rivalry. In practice, however, the benefit mentioned has hardly justified the hopes of those who favor the existence of two clubs. Rivalry has, it is true, sprung up, but few who have been familiar with the history of the clubs feel that it has been a rivalry of a healthy nature. Its fruit has been, to a large extent, lack of co operation...
...lecture last evening before the Classical Club, Mr. Parker carefully considered the reign of Nero, and compared the true historical facts with those given in "Quo Vadis." He characterized this book as misleading in many ways, but most of all in the description which it gives of the condition of society during the last years of Nero. The emperor and his court were corrupt beyond description, but to extend this licentiousness into all ranks of society is wholly in contradiction to the facts...
Classical Club. The True History of the Reign of Nero. Mr. C. P. Parker. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...