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...well-trained and commanding debaters, and the team which will defend the honors of the University tonight will be compelled to put forth all the skill and ability with which weeks of grueling preparation have equipped it. The only non-athletic activity in which we compete with our brethren from Princeton and Yale, debating has rapidly acquired the prestige which it deserves in view of its vital connection with the public life into which it is but natural that college men should go upon graduation. May "the Harvard habit of winning debates" continue in full vigor...
...Fitch said that youth is not primarily interested in the science of religion, that it does not want to be pious. It does want to be brave, clean, honest, and useful. It does, behind a deep and shy reserve, revere itself, its Maker, and its brethren. Here is a youth's conscious idea of his religion; that as boyhood ends, character must begin; that as manhood is consummated, capacity to serve must be its essential witness...
...well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest of its members, how he always seemed to take the side of a student in trouble, much to the impatience of some of us younger brethren, who were too apt to think that "something must really be done about this case." But when he wished not to save you, you were always made to feel that your punishment was not greater than you could bear, and that you could make it serve you to something better...
...Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
...Professor Peabody and Professor Richards, were received by the Emperor, the professors and the students, and with what intense interest and absorption large numbers of students have attended their lectures throughout the semester. It is most earnestly to be desired that Harvard men will not fall short of their brethren of Berlin University in intellectual hospitality and zeal to-learn from foreign masters...