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...contributions of public spirited citizens to aid in its prosecution, but the experience of the society has demonstrated the fact that a continually increasing sum, both absolutely and relatively, can be obtained from the communities themselves in which University Extension is prosecuted and from the people who most immediately profit by its work...
...value of Phillips Brooks House will be that it gives for the first time to instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older as a friend and profit by influences which are not felt in the lecture room; and where the perfect harmony of view may be established which will raise the standards of this University as nothing else can raise them. Many other good services to Harvard Phillips Brooks House will surely do, but none greater than...
...foundation and history during the colonial period, another on its part in the revolution, a third on Harvard before the late war, and a fourth on the part that she took in that war. Four men could certainly be found to lecture on these or similar subjects with great profit to the students...
...cannot be denied that the freedom from compulsion is unfortunate in one effect. It leaves room for a heedless neglect of opportunity, by which many now deprive themselves of much profit. The eminent character of the officiating ministers in Appleton Chapel, and the consequent privilege of listening to them, seems not to be always appreciated. Only recently it was said of Mr. Crothers that since Phillips Brooks, no man has shown greater depth of spiritual interpretation; yet of the students who neglected to hear him, few probably realized the chance they were throwing away. If this unfortunate heedlessness could...
...avenue; yet this request has been so far unheeded that complaints at the office are still frequent. The men who are to blame for this are very seriously to blame. They show a harmful lack of consideration which is utterly inexcusable. No gentleman should feel himself at liberty to profit by neglecting a request with which his fellows whose interests are like his own comply, especially when his neglect is likely to endanger the priveleges of others...