Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Therefore today we, the elders, call upon you, our successors, to share with us in the emotions which the undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
Governor Greenhalge said that he spoke with particular interest because Harvard is now coming forward to take her share in the great works of public life, which formerly her sons have shirked...
...defeat of Harvard by Yale in the track games ought to drive home a lesson which Harvard must learn before an equal share in athletic victories will ever come to her. It is that if Harvard is to win, the whole of Harvard must unite in the attempt to win. Part of Harvard may do its best, but, if part of Harvard is to be pitted against the whole of Yale, how more than occasional victories can result...
...hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly to state to the directors of Memorial that, if a satisfactory permanent method can be found, and if requisite funds can be made available, a second hall will be built at once. If either side declines to do its share, we believe that the other side would be justified in refusing to do its own. It must be cooperation, or else better no action...
...believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...