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...members of his division. As it was a talk especially applicable to those who were not present, a brief summary of it may not be out of place. Mr. Hayes, remarks were in substance: I cannot too forcibly urge upon all of you who remain away from these divisions, - either from a lurking belief that you can express well what you have to say naturally, or from a distrust of the methodical means of acquiring it, - the absolute necessity of obeying certain fundamental principles which are founded on truth. You cannot rely upon the natural expression of your feelings when...
...Week-day morning prayers at 8.45 a.m. No seats are assigned, either for officers or classes...
...have done. I ought to have taken my seat long ago. I am conscious of the infirmities of age, of health, of voice, which incapacitate of justice either to myself or to the occasion, and I am more than conscious that there are distinguished guests here from other colleges and from other climes who have a right to be heard, and that I enjoyed my right fifty years ago. Let me only in taking my seat, give honor to my alma mater on this birthday of hers in the presence of all her assembled sons, my heartfelt hopes and wishes...
...long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of the vacant throne. If that is all, then nobody can guess at the future from the past. On into utter recklessness or back into a darker and severer superstition than any from which she has escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give it all a low meaning. Possible enough to see in it nothing but the casting of restraint after restraint, in order that at last all traces of connection with the supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation...
...whole conception of the Symphony was an admirable one. It is a pity that in place of the Toccata or the Largo, one of Prof. Paine's works was not given and under the direction of the composer himself. It would certainly have been fully as interesting as either of the two numbers and would have represented what Harvard College has done for music...