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...operative Society is conducted solely for the benefit of the University constituency and its officers have constantly striven to keep the general level of prices in all departments as low as the canons of sound business will permit. While the store does the larger part of its business on a cash basis arrangements are made whereby any member may open an account upon terms which will be explained at the Superintendent's office. The growth and success of the Society's operations have been due in the main to a genuine desire to accommodate its members in every reasonable manner...
...several years men have dreamed of and striven for such a plan, and thus have laid the foundation for it. Two Harvard professors especially have given it much thought and labour, and a large committee of students, with the help of other teachers and graduates, have threshed out the constitution and selected the books. When the building was set on foot, three graduates at once asked to furnish the house. Mr. James H. Hyde of '98 has given us the library-both fittings and books. Mr. Francis L. Higginson of '63, and Mr. Augustus Hemenway of '75, old and proved...
...merely an advance along old and conspicuous lines; but a transformation of nature and spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual...
...cunning that prompts the actions of the politician and the business man, while it is eagerly striven for by many, brings with it contention. Many pursue knowledge, but the enlightenment of the intellect does little to secure the happiness of men. Science tries in vain to solve these problems of life upon which our happiness is dependent. Science must look to a higher power in order to solve them...
Each age has built in but one style of architecture, and this style has represented the union in earnest effort of heart, head and hand. It is because of the untiring energy with which the masters of these former ages have striven to incarnate the ideas of their epochs in their works, that their results have been so perfect and so lasting...