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Board of Overseers. Special meeting at the Faculty Room, University Hall...
...great whole is strong. The part which calls itself a whole and shuts itself up against the inflow of that universal which is "evergreen," grows dry and barren and desolate and dies. Of how many lives of men and institutions is the secret here? All false partisanship, all barren specialism and spiritual selfishness is but the effort of a part to take itself out of the embrace of the whole. The healthy partisanship is always reacting out towards the universal interests and methods. The healthy specialism is always healthy itself in the absolute and universal truth...
...would be too terrible if it were not so. It is terrible that it is not so to hosts of workers in their drudgeries. Alas for the man who is not growing into broader sympathy with men the longer that he does his special work. Alas for the institution that does not feel all life clamorous and profuse about it the longer that it goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action...
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
...Special Features: The Coach, the Mott Haven Cup. The Crimson...