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...only to us has "Brooks" alone no meaning. Future generations of Harvard students could easily forget in whose honor-Brooks House had been named, but the Phillips Brooks House would always recall him who will go down in history as Phillips Brooks...
Looking at this text practically and logically it seems absurd, for it violates the very first principle of logic. But when we come to spiritual facts, we cannot measure them by physical laws. The law of the Conservation of Energy does not apply with regard to honor and fidelity and patriotism. Neither does anything that lives or grows obey this inflexible law. The physiologist's first principle is that the body dies in decaying partially at every instant. At every stage of its growth every organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist...
...does not work, but we know that Christ's law is a success. For are not the very qualities which we honor and emulate in Phillips Brooks and Abraham Lincoln and all noble men, their forgetfulness of self? If, then, we know what the highest is, let us as educated men strive to obtain it, and give to politics and to society the healthful influence of our training and our learning. Let us devote ourselves, that we may save ourselves...
President-elect Cleveland has been admitted an honorary member to the Sigma Phi fraternity. This is the first instance where a person has held that honor, outside of a college...
...Association voted the following. with regard to the proposed religious building: Resolved, that this association heartily commend the action of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot and the class of '55 in their proposal to erect a religious building in honor of Phillips Brooks; first, because the erection of such a building was the earnest desire of the late Bishop, and second, because, as a memorial of him, it will keep fresh in the minds of the students of Harvard University the ideal to which he attained...