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...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...
...Mott, college secretary of the international committee, addressed the members of the Y. M. C. A. at their rooms in Lawrence hall last evening. Mr. Mott spoke earnestly and to the point. He began by briefly reviewing the work done by the Association during the past year in the Unlted States and Canada, and he declared that the religious feeling now prevalent throughout the coleges was far stronger than it has ever been before...
...second of a series of talks on choosing a profession was given last evening in Sever 11 by Hon. Jeremiah Smith of New Hampshire. The speaker was introduced by President Eliot, and spoke first of the law profession as viewed from the side of truth and honor. Many men have believed and do believe it impossible for a man to practice law without a deviation from strict truth. Carlyle's outspoken opinions on the subject of lawyers are well known and Matthew Arnold once said that he was thankful when a friend of his escaped from...
Judge Smith then spoke of "Utopia," in which no lawyers were to live; of Bellamy who said in his "Looking Backwards" that in the 20th century no lawyers would live in Boston; of the Knights of Labor, by whose by-laws "liquor sellers, bankers, gamblers and lawyers" are barred from membership...
Judge Smith. in conclusion, then spoke of the chances of pecuniary success for the young lawyer. The oft repeated saying that "there is always room at the top" was never so true as it is today. There is probably not so much room at the foot now as there was fifty years ago, for many things done then by lawyers are now performed by others. The young lawyer must experience many years of patient waiting before he can hope for success, but if he employ these years of waiting in a profitable manner, if he keep brain...