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...both of the 'varsity and of their own class. Consequently they assign all sorts of excuses as reasons for not contributing more generously. It is scarcely necessary to say that this impression is an erroneous one and the sooner they relinquish it the better. It is a duty they owe the college and their class to subscribe liberally to the maintenance of their college teams...
...meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human being; the best training any young man can get is a habit of grappling with them and conquering them...
...were ruled off the Princeton team at Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were in college when Princeton was the friend and Yale the enemy owe to Princeton our efforts for fair play and fair consideration, and I know that numbers of Harvard men are with me in condemning the action of the Harvard mass meeting as hasty and premature. Let us wait till the evidence is all in and sifted before casting...
...regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
...able to do much to advance the interests of this department. A report has gone abroad in the college, due largely to an unfortunate misunderstanding of a remark of one of the members of the newly organized club, that the men who come to Harvard from other colleges owe no allegiance to the University. Such an absurd rumor scarcely needs refutation. It is true that the most of these men come here as graduates of other institutions, and that their first allegiance is due to these institutions; but that they are also loyal to Harvard, and are interested...