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...took. Gestures are a world of expression in themselves, and consist in the actions which truly and unmistakably interpret the emotion they serve to express. With them there is no shadow of turning, for they are founded on truth. You must master all the details of elocution, such as, standing, and I perceive that few of you know how to stand even, - enunciation and action before you can have your body at our command for the expression of your feelings. But this, in fact is all that elocution can teach you, to have your bodily means of expression entirely under...
...then stand firmly to the determination to row only Columbia '90 and if Yale wishes to row a freshmen crew, she can make some arrangement for her own race. It would not be too great a strain for the victorious crew in the Harvard-Columbia race, to row Yale a mile straight-away on the day after...
...Princeton on Friday. The rates will be surprisingly cheap. The trip is a pleasant one; the reception the visitors will meet at Princeton will be - as all Princeton receptions are - pleasant; the game, we might also predict, will be a pleasant one - from a Harvard stand point. Everyone knows how much cheering helps an eleven on to victory; everyone knows, too what a tremendous audience Princeton will have to support their team, and what a small, though hearty, delegation of Harvard men New York will find. Everyone who has a few dollars to spare should...
...very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious...
...hills, "the mother of us all." It is that personal presence, which is with us here tonight. What I want to do in the time which I may occupy with this sermon is to remind myself and you that this great being whom we reverence and love, must stand in some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which...