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...best accomplish having your religion honored in the entire circle of your acquaintance? not by ostentatious professions. Make your quiet yet efficient profession by constant attendance on christian worship and ordinances and by taking your modest port in such associations for religious improvement as have your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven...
...directors fixing the amount of the dividend. I suggest that we divide the round sum of $2,800, reserving the rest of the net gain for addition to capital and for possible expenses for alterations beyond the sum estimated. Last year we divided about $1,800. If we follow the usual rule of past years, and divide two-thirds of the net gain, we shall have a larger sum, about $3,100 for dividends; but I think it wise to increase our capital as much as possible, and the members will probably be satisfied with the division...
...fact, has developed into the best nine Harvard has had for many years. The college has confidence in the men who make up the nine. The character of their work has been such as to inspire this confidence and such as future Harvard teams would do well to follow. It is by such earnest work, and not by the mere playing of Intercollegiate games, that the standard of athletics at Harvard is to be raised and to which we look for our future success...
...looks out upon the broad expanse of life with its wonderful activity and its astonishing achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with...
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