Word: manhood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moral welfare of our country. I pray that I may be granted the wisdom, the strength and the patience which are needed in no common measure; that Harvard may stand in the future, as she has stood under the long line of my predecessors, for the development of true manhood, and for the advancement of sound learning; and that her sons may go forth with a chivalrous resolve that the world shall be better for the years they have spent within these walls...
These topics are vitally connected with the welfare and happiness of the undergraduates. The CRIMSON believes Mr. Lowell stands at the beginning of a period of brilliant service to Harvard and to the high ideals of integrity, scholarship and vigorous manhood which have been nobly combined in his predecessor...
...Called to the presidency in early manhood, he has administered the affairs of this University for forty years with eminent skill and fidelity. Its vast development during his term of service has been mainly due to his rare wisdom, his strong convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in pressing them, he has by his constructive energy transformed Harvard College into a university, and at the same time has exerted an influence on the educational forces of the nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands today the leader...
...tragedy of the text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that Christ would approve of one's life." There is no higher type of manhood, there is no better, more useful, more satisfying way of life, there is no greater joy, than to be at one in spirit and purpose with him and with the great company of loyal and loving souls who gratefully acknowledge his inspiration and guidance and to set before ourselves any meaner...
...change in the religious atmosphere at Harvard, a change due directly to the efforts of the Association, founded in memory of a man who stood for the best there is in life, Phillips Brooks. The step in life you Freshmen are now taking, he said, is from boyhood into manhood. The dividing line between the two is more difficult to determine for a man entering a college, than for him who enters directly into the world's work. The former continues in a slightly altered path, only under new conditions, while the latter mingles with men of the world...