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...President, Graduates of Harvard College: At this high festival, in which tender recollections and hopeful anticipations, thanksgivings for the past and aspirations for the future, are mingling, we all think first of our beloved country...
...best men of education to mingle in political matters, thus consequently leaving all political activity in the hands of those who have but little respect for the student and the scholar in politics, are not the most favorable conditions under a government such as ours. (Applause.) And I think I see indications that in the future the thought and the learning of the country will be more plainly heard in the expression of popular will...
...within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly as the existence within an element which is its natural supply and good. Just think how numerous the institutions are. Each man must feel about him the grasp of the total humanity to which he belongs. If he does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each...
...have dwelt long on these first principles, because in them I find the key of all the meaning of the college festival. All thankfulness for the past, all hope for the great future depends, I think, in this; on whether the university which we profoundly love has grown towards, and shall continually grow more and more into a full obedience to the great masteries, a full acceptance of the great elemental influences and supplies on which all life must feed, into the fuller and fuller relation to God, and universal human life which can alone make her and keep...
...chance yet left for the eleven to clear themselves and to change the prevalent opinion which now pervades the college. This chance will present itself to-day, when the eleven goes to Exeter. Exeter is by no means invincible, as many of the freshman class seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win, and not in a faint-hearted spirit, there are good grounds for believing that the freshmen may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in foot-ball among the preparatory schools...