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...expressed in words quite intelligible and widely current and the honorary degrees of the great university have today, for the first time in her history been conferred in the welcome vernacular. [Applause.] But sir, I know no higher duty at this time than the renewing of the heroic element exemplified in college life and character. When in 1775 the immortal Washington took command of the assembled forces of New England before the walls of the college, the instructors and students, exempt from the burdens of military life, repaired to the quieter precincts of old Concord, and the halls of learning...
...itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly as the existence within an element which is its natural supply and good. Just think how numerous the institutions are. Each man must feel about him the grasp of the total humanity to which he belongs. If he does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which...
...goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...
...night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing...
...Board of Overseers met yesterday, and by their action destroyed the last element of religious compulsion in the university. Harvard College, when founded in 1636, was intended to furnish an essentially religious education to its undergraduates. The ministry was then almost entirely composed of these Harvard graduates; but Harvard has outgrown all this; she is now a university with a divinity school of her own, and a law school of her own, and a scientific school of her own; she does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing...