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...Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro reconstruction of the language thruout the land. What matters while the old stock lasts...
...Mother of men for three centuries Harvard has sent forth her sons to carry her name and influence, and the name and influence of Massachusetts to all parts of the World. Conceived for the purpose of educating a ministry for the church, the mighty University has extended its leadership into every field of human endeavor...
...memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want to die; but they went forth knowing the danger, even courting it, from a profound sense of duty. No one shall persuade us that they did so from a traditional but irrational altruism, and that self-devotion is less worthy of admiration than we feel it to be. If anyone could so persuade, us he would...
...community, but they had no conception of the vast area over which the seed they nourished would bear fruit. When the earlier colleges were planted the small settlements on the Atlantic sea-board were laboriously pushing their way from the shore into the forest; but now their graduates go forth across the long range of hills into the vast plains beyond and through the Rocky Mountains to the western ocean. They can, if they will, influence the destiny of the Continent. Then the few people were of one stock. Now all the races of Europe have crowded into the land...
...could retain the fervor and devotion that our young men displayed in the war, and which they would put forth again in a national crisis; if we could retain that spirit in the slow, hard labors of peace; if their exaltation should never fade in the light of common day, we could be the greatest people that ever dwelt upon the earth. This is not to be achieved by men's comparing themselves among themselves, or measuring themselves by an average standard; but by living up to the best they know and measuring themselves by their own highest aspiration...