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...Expect Glorious Career...
...urge others to expect nor do I expect for myself a glorious career covered with public honor. No man can achieve very much by himself; just as in a war all men can not be generals; but unless that part of the community which has received great benefits from the United States and which should situations stands ready without the hope of reward, without the hope of glory, to defend its institutions intelligently and carefully against the insidious advances of their opponents in times of peace, we may be sure that they will fall. We who support the old principles...
...Harvard's sons. It is a tale of adventure, a tale of heroism, suffering, of death, dingy, in unlit corners or flaming gorgeously in battle. It is a story of human beings who were tested by the fires, but more, it tells of bright youth winning to brief glorious achievement and of riper age, which, having labored well, finds its highest accomplishment in dying for a cause believed-in. We have not forgotten. Those in the world who truly felt deeply in wartime, whose innermost beings were stirred, did gain something from the years of trial which time cannot wipe...
...read the letters from M. Blair-Duncan concerning the Peruvian University he is so kindly disemboweling for us. I am the solitary Peruvian of the Incas line now attendant at this great modern seat of learning. To feel that Harvard is unearthing the riches of my race's glorious past and is portraying to us now the student life of that distant age makes my eyes water with cheer...
...learn without warning that our predecessors played boyish pranks, dodged an education, and generally mistreated the glorious manhood of sideburns. Rumours of such things had previously reached our ears, but somehow we had failed to connect them officially with these portrait ancestors. And now we do not know whether to thank the Dean for his compliment, or to deplore his shattering of our beliefs. Incidentally, to return a Roland for an Oliver, the wisdom of the whole disclosure might be questioned; for, having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might...