Word: true
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true, as reported, that a graduate of the College has offered to build a new and artistic bridge to Soldiers Field, we would say, by all means let him build it at once. The insufficiency of the present ancient structure is revealed anew at every football game...
...timidity in attacking large problems. Students too often begin with low ideals and try to attain greater ones, whereas the reverse should be the rule to follow. In their studies, students are inclined to wait for their instructors to tell them how and why to do their work. "The true scholar," said President Lowell, "does not wait for a Professor to come along with a lantern and show him the way. He simply breaks right in without delay, and gets what...
...Hospitality. Here is strongest the Harvard contempt for superficiality and cant, but it is through the meetings of these societies or of the Bible or other discussion groups which originate here, that many a Harvard man develops his lightly accepted religious ideas into what is for him a true and satisfying religious life. It is through the joint efforts of these organizations that hundreds of Harvard men get that opportunity for and experience in social service work which makes them leaders in movements for social improvement. It is from these active organizations that radiate a number of pervasive influences...
...colleges have been drawn closer together than ever before. The conduct of a great institution of learning is no longer a matter which concerns its governing boards alone or its graduates alone; it is something which affects a hundred other institutions with which it comes in contact. Particularly true is this of the eldest in our collegiate sisterhood--the university whose pre-eminence in years is equalled by her proeminence in honors and services...
...welcome this great company of Delegates from the universities and colleges in every part of our country has been a true delight; to reflect what their presence means for the solidarity of American education, and co-operation in solving its problems, is an inspiration, and to me a great encouragement. To you, Sir, as their spokesman, we desire to express our gratitude for your kind words. On more than one occasion you have yourself depicted the tasks that lie before us in sentences of fire; and I trust that in solving them, American institutions of higher learning will ever...