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...grounds for dissatisfaction seem therefore to be in the indiscriminate sale of season tickets. Heretofore, it has not appeared necessary to restrict these tickets to undergraduates and graduates, as the sale outside of the University was limited principally to the parents and relatives of the students. I do not think even now that a large percentage of season tickets has gone to outsiders who have no interest in Harvard; but I am sure that all will agree, after the experience of this year, to some kind of a restriction...
...sometimes tempted to think of religion as a negative force in life. Its real value, however, is in raising us to a plane above low temptation, and in leading us on to higher and nobler actions. The attitude of indifference towards the conduct of others, so long as we ourselves are not affected, inflicts indescribable harm, which cure can only be remedied by men of courage daring to stand up for justice and truth...
...than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated to love his country, and, if need be, to die for it. The culture which leaves...
...that the men have gone and settled in various branches of the service, in the cavalry, volunteer militia, or naval reserves, it is well to think of them as what they are, patriotic servants of their country. It is hard to say in any single instance, "this man went only through love of adventure," or "that man desired subsequent political advancement," or "such a man has home ties which should have bound him." The question of enlistment is of an individual nature, one which every man has to decide for himself, and speaking generally each individual is the best judge...
What we would ask then is for Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, to think of their fellows, some of whom are among the present Cuban army of invasion, to thank them for being what they are,- a credit to the University, and to give them their heartiest good wishes...