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Will you allow a graduate, one who was a member of the Glee Club in the prehistoric times of "Western Trips," to venture this observation? -- that the musical club men whose concerts now delight hundreds or, I may say, thousands of their fellow-members at the Union's Tuesday evening meetings are filling a more natural, a healthier and on the whole a jollier place in college life than their predecessors of a decade ago, who toured the country in competition with a dozen other colleges, or gave "benefits" under the auspices of Masonic organizations in neighboring suburbs, and whose...
...life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements of opinion in order to put his general theory in practice. For effective public action, compromise with fellow workers is necessary, but the conditions in public life, making compromise necessary, do not favor the pursuit of pure truth. Therefore, why should scholars fall into parties? In action, he that is not with us is against us. In thought, even he that is honestly against...
...United States. Colonel Hallowell closed his speech, which was very witty and jolly, by reading a telegram from President Roosevelt '81, regretting that he could not be present at the dinner. The crowd then cheered the President, and drank his health, singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...received the degree of D.D. from Yale and received the same degree from Harvard in 1884 and from Princeton in 1896. The degree of Litt.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Dublin in 1892. He has been a Fellow of Harvard University since 1877, and was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...James Walker, subsequently President of the College, who was a deeply religious man of reserved, strong character, great force of intellect and most impressive presence, and possessing a rare gift of twinkling humor which enabled him to enter deeply into the lives of all the students. Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, just rising to fame, was then an instructor, whom the students loved as a man of great sweetness of nature, of most universal culture, and a most thorough gentleman. Josiah Quincy, the President of the College, was a man of the greatest public gifts. He was remarkably eloquent...