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Further you can serve the college by a wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge of all he has touched upon. In professional and business life, also, graduates...
...isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from his associations with those about him can there arise anything to cause in him a worthy self-respect. Dr. Peabody applied the thought to the student, and in a broader sense to the University. He spoke also, of the ideal Harvard, which shall be, not a bulwark against ignorance, not a hall of learning, but a temple...
...selecting the nineteenth verse as the text for his sermon. He said that the old Hebrew-Christian belief that there is a heavenly consummation of every earthly good is not only true, but contains many lessons for us. We must not measure this consummation by earthly standards, but by ideal ones. And in this is to be found its lessons for us. He then applied the value of ideals in the life of man as an individual, then in his narrowest circle of association-the home; and next in his broader association with his fellow man-the city. He also...
...fact that the writer has been hoaxed does not dawn upon the reader until the end is reached. The enjoyment of the whole is heightened by the skillful way in which the denouement is managed Under Topics of the Day is "Another's Study in Happiness." It is thoroughly ideal, and, to us, somewhat unsatisfactory. The short sketch, "In the Train," by R. W. Atkinson, is one of the brightest bits of the number. Mr. Zinkeisen, in his "Heine's Pictures of Travel," displays an intimate sympathy with the author, as well as an understanding of his moods and surroundings...