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...presidency, he will not sever his connection with the college as an instructor. Long may he live to teach before his classes, and to impress, by his example, those lessons of culture, generosity and uprightness, for which his life has been eminent. It is with mingled feelings of pride and regret that the present senior class reflects that her baccalaureate sermon will be the last from his lips, and her graduating exercises the last at which he will preside...
...Harvard spirit does not drive men to work. They must find out for themselves, and must not forget under cover of physical improvement or bettering their ability to associate with men that the fundamental object of University life is to educate the mind. There are men who take pride in saying that they have never seen the inside of the library; from these men, freshmen, coming from the restrictions of school life and imagining that the freedom of the Harvard system means a license for laziness, learn to consider it beneath their dignity to study. They believe that the library...
...which prevailed at that time and by which the Co-operative was saved an inglorious fall, is good evidence of how the society was appreciated. But let this appreciation be shown this year, and at once. Hearty and immediate support is the society's due. Harvard interests and Harvard pride should be enough to move every man in Harvard University to become a member of Harvard's most useful society. Freshmen who are at all reluctant about becoming members may well do away with all their reluctance, and feel assured that in joining the Co-operative Society they are doing...
...same direction for a series of years; and if, every year, twenty men with position, resolution and tact, would make it their business to resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone of character...
...part, major and minor, touched upon by the class in the study of the subject. Others are mere outlines, and still others contain nothing but the most difficult portions of the branch on which they are to aid their concoctors and manipulators. Some men make "cribbing" a science, and pride themselves upon their success in eluding the vigilance of the faculty, while their friends look on and wonder and wish that they, too, could be successfully wicked...