Word: strive
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Dates: during 1901-1901
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...this is the House of Fellowship Binding with bonds that ne'er shall slip. Union of work - to fight to the end; Union of heart - to strive for one's friend; Union of strength - to renounce without sigh; Union of grit - to fall without cry; Union of wisdom - to read with mind free; Union of love - to give with glee; Union of head - to make life more plain; Union of hope - to win without stain. These are the ties this House shall breed; This is its rock-foundation creed. Symbol of Harvard Loyalty, House of Good Fellowship - Welcome to thee...
...great work and glory of our new century. Already this century is bringing to you younger men, questions and decisions to the full as interesting as the last century brought to us. Every honor is open to you, and every victory, if only you will dare, will strive strongly and will persist...
...after all, this is all summed up simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...
...second, Knowledge of God and the truth of the life eternal; and third, Faith, a surrender to God's will and a devotion to his service. Man has an affinity to two things, to God and to the brute. It is this discord between two natures which we must strive to resolve into a perfect unity with God himself. We must give up the things of this earth and all self-seeking purposes, if we are to attain this unity. As Jesus has said, "He that loseth his life shall find it," and in this paradox is the solution...