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...rapidly than the eastern in population, in wealth and in culture. Is Harvard to continue year by year to lose her grip on this most vital section of the country, and to become a provincial college with provincial short-comings? Without casting slurs upon Massachusetts, I am free to say that it is the West that Harvard should look for new material in each new class; and yet the West, with a vastly larger population than in 1894, has diminished representation by nearly 1 1-2 per cent...
...opportunity to know their classmates. If caps and gowns are worn, the Seniors are distinguished from the men of the other classes. Last year it was affirmed that the whole plan would fail, if all the members of the class did not wear the caps and gowns. I say that the plan will be successful, if only half of the class wear them; for those will be known to be Seniors and will be recognized as such. It will not make any difference to those who are so well known that they need no distinguishing mark, and those...
...themselves had a long past to build upon and may therefore be called the Ancients of Antiquity, since like our own more modern Ancients of Greece and Rome, they represent the culmination of a long continued upward trend in the affairs of men. Of the Mycenaean art, eminent writers say that through its genius for vivacity in action, it may be called in reality early Greek art; and that the Ionian Greeks and the Athenians are the rightful heirs of the genius exemplified in the works of their Mycenaean forefathers...
...untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness of Simon's character gave way to the strength Christ meant for him to have, and he indeed becomes Peter, the "rock" and martyr of the church...
Finally comes the preacher. The power of the pulpit and the preacher has not passed and even preachers of moderate ability can do endless good to their fellow men and to their country. If one has anything worth while to say, one will always find people ready to listen...