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...take our places. That such a remembrance of him should imply the work which he has accomplished here at Harvard is a suggestion which everyone will appreciate. Bishop Brooks labored tirelessly and with the full energy of his enthusiasm for anything which tended to make us think more seriously, more intelligently of the opportunities and obligations of our lives here at college. He was thoroughly in sympathy with the movement to secure a building which should be the centre of the religious life of the university. Every undertaking at which he could aid by his words and presence, came...
...said there were few things that many people dread more than beggary. Each has his idea of what he wants, the loss of which would perhaps mean beggary to him, and he might suffer and die sooner than give it up. It is curious to think how true this is of every member of the hurrying crowds we see around us every day; each with his small function in the world, and each with his fear for something, the loss of which would mean beggary to him. "Be master of thyself" and no material loss can then mean anything...
...took about five years for Prof. Goodwin and Prof. White to arouse interest enough to set on foot preparations for the first play, but when once interest was aroused it had no bounds. Well knowing that to-day many feel as I do about this, I think that I need only mention the matter, to set the ball in motion without delay. It would no longer be an experiment. Other colleges have repeatedly given plays, and in every case success has been the result...
...expense to double the width of the track from the gate down to the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, or to broaden it by one half, even, would make a vast improvement on the track as it is now, and the advantages to be gained by such an addition would, I think, justify the necessary expenditure...
...great city attracts men of all classes; it draws men of great force whether good or bad because it demands men of force; it draws weak imperfect men because they think that in the cities they can depend on others. Work of most kinds can be done to better advantage in the cities than elsewhere. The problem then becomes not how we can do away with cities but how we can utilize them...