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Born in a family of culture and religious thought, he early determined to enter the ministry. He was precocious in his progress toward scholarly attainments, and was graduated from Harvard at the age of fifteen, with two exceptions, the youngest graduate the college...
...came to Harvard in 1860, when forty-nine years of age. His reputation was established, and his powers at their prime. He was a simple, unpretentious preacher, with none of the graces of the pulpit, and, judged superficially, he was not the man to draw the thoughtless element in the college. But his greatness soon made itself felt. In his words, was a sincerity which made the students give heed. A wisdom that made them believe, and a gentleness that made them love...
...come to us largely by faith. We can give no mathematical proof of the existence of God, but still we are sure of it. We are conscious of it just as we are of our own existence. What we must do is to struggle against the spirit of the age which is inclined to agnosticism. The spirit of the age is constantly changing and it is more than probable that at no time is it headed in exactly the right direction. There are a good many men who sneer at religion because not much of it can be strictly proved...
Military drill at the M. I. T. is compulsory to all under 21 years of age...
President Eliot then delivered an address on "The principal conditions of a satisfactory career between the age of twenty five and seventy...