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...heartiness of the entire proceedings. There had been no thought of grandeur, no waste of time in elaborate preparations. The men of Harvard welcomed their guests and gave them of their best with abundant cordiality, but appealed to those who knew and esteemed it for its work's sake. It was clear that it did not appeal in vain and that it was strong in the affections of a vast body of its graduates, and in the kindly regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford...
...band with the accompaniment of a few feeble croaks by the class, and in order to be sung, it must be rehearsed. Half an hour just after dinner is not a severe tax upon any one's time, and every man who can sing at all ought, for the sake of the class, to be present these two evenings...
...right method to pursue to keep the work of the crew a profound secret to outsiders until, say, within one week of the race, and if any possible good can be expected from such a method, everybody would gladly acquiesce for the sake of expected success, but whenever a member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method...
...yourself. Intelligence and sympathy come with experience. Learn the lesson of doing the right that lies close at hand, from the brave action of Mr. Cable in publishing his two books "The Freedman's Case in Equity," and "The Silent South." His action in defying social ostracism for the sake of what he felt was the right should be an example to us. It is by such men that the work of the world is done...
...complaint, made yesterday by an instructor in Political Economy, that one of his lectures had been reported and published in a Boston paper, hardly reflects credit on the member of the section, who for the sake of the small profits of a newspaper correspondent, went not only beyond the duties of a correspondent, but also beyond the laws of courtesy. We would find it hard to imagine such a transgression, on the part of a member of the college, if it had not actually taken place. To the instructor's very justifiable indignation, we would add our own condemnation...