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...narrowed counter challenge, should, it would seem, have selected Yale and Pennsylvania, who hold the two leading places in track athletics. There certainly seems no adequate reason why a meeting like the one originally proposed by the American colleges should not have been arranged; but, as matters now stand, it is hard to see just how Harvard can fairly be one of two colleges to meet an English team this year...
...stand to the University as its last and, we trust, its richest fruit. Here you have dreamed dreams and seen visions. For the most glorious of those dreams and the loveliest of these visions you will be held responsible. If you should fail of your highest purposes in life, you will not be able to fall back upon the excuse that the highest ideals have not been given, for they are yours now. What you will do with them remains for you to answer...
...challenge which is on the way from Oxford and Cambridge accepted. In combination, Harvard and Yale could this year put a very strong team in the field, and could assure the representatives of the English colleges an exciting contest. The games need not in any way stand as precedent. It would be undesirable for Harvard to pledge herself to take part in regular annual meetings of the kind proposed; but if it fortunately happens that an English team can visit America, the opportunity to meet them should not be lost. Such an international meeting would lead to very pleasant relations...
...profited, and so should be able to appreciate the value and importance of them. It is, of course, not to be expected that seniors should give up books which they themselves would probably need; but of the many which are each year set aside for good and allowed to stand unused, there are sure to be some which would make very desirable additions to one or other of the libraries. The departments are doing a great service to students by their attempts to reserve special books, and they should be aided in every way. It is but a small matter...
...been reformed from a life of evil, his first impulse is to seek a new and more congenial environment. His noblest course, however, is to stay where he is and to build up a new existence for himself. Christ detached from himself the man who needed to stand alone. So ought we all to live patiently where God has called us, and to find our resources in him. There is a kind of isolation in all profound experience, but this isolation is only temporary. All true souls meet at last. John Hall once said: "The way to attain a high...