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...best conditions under which the President must work is the constantly recurring opportunity of moral advancement in judging conduct and sentiment with justice. There is also a vast opportunity for developing the gentler characteristics. In a community of the size of Harvard there is always something sad or piteous taking place, which the President can do much in relieving. The Presidency of Harvard is a happy and privileged position in which to work, and its incumbent cannot help growing and broadening in the exercise of his duties. Harvard is now a highly organized and comprehensive organization, preparing...
...representatives and the Jewish race from many of the New England colleges. He began by saying that Harvard University was founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom both physical and intellectual. he said that the Jews had chosen and excellent place in this University...
...really did not make much difference what sort of a game Harvard put up at the bat, when she fielded so bunglingly, and yet the spectacle was piteous. Eleven hits were made, and only two runs resulted. Here Princeton's superiority was very marked. Her batsmen worked well together, and their hits came in bunches. The freshmen did not throw into their work the life and dash that bring victory; they seemed contented when they had men on bases, and, as a matter of fact, they left twelve of them. Princeton played a very steady game throughout, and deserved...
...Advocate's ringing eloquence and inspiring rhetoric is usually invoked in the cause of more board walks in the yard, or in protest at the manner of scattering the fertilizer over the grass, or in piteous appeals to be protected by the authorities from the muckers who assemble in the rectangle and throw out doubtful compliments to the editors as they walk along. Occasionally, also, the Advocate informs the eleven or the nine that if they can play well enough they will win, provided they don't get over confident; and tells the captain of the lacrosse team that...
...then he pointed to a piteous sight...