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...remote and old in the accumulation of riches or of knowledge which they do not share. That youth who is consecrated to this religion of service, giving himself to his God, as he finds God in his fellowmen, that youth is endowed with life's most durable and most precious compensation. He may not gain recognition or pleasures or riches or ease, but these are the accidental gifts of life and they are not essential to the fulfillment of his destiny. It is not enough that we should have had our tears and have known our laughter. We must give...
...question naturally arises -- how does this environment further this early and rapid development. As Dean Yeomans points out in the current issue of the Graduates' Magazine, the "precious mediocrity" of the class will find more and higher inspiration for work and better opportunities to perform it. It is a fact that under prevalent conditions a major portion of undergraduate mediocrity is found among isolated groups of students who live apart from their active and energetic classmates and who never come in contact with the leaders of the classes. The consequence is they are satisfied to loaf and do only enough...
...singing at the football games is practice. To supply this necessary factor in the development of a singing section several mass meetings are held during the latter part of the season. At these meetings a great deal of time is devoted to rehearsing the familiar songs. This time, so precious in so short a season, might well be employed in learning the new songs, for other opportunities are presented for rehearsing the old. Organized cheering had a successful beginning at the game on Saturday last, and there seems to be no reason for not using some of the intermission between...
Such a collection is at once an illuminating exhibit of the writer to whom it is devoted and a precious and enduring memorial of the man who formed...
...immense University Museum, costly in the monetary sense, and absolutely unreplaceable for its carefully gathered specimens, is almost totally owing to him. The money he put out to build and enlarge it he would scorn to have mentioned. But no monument would suit him better than its curious and precious contents which were his life work and his life-long...