Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...death of John Moore Morse '07, Harvard has lost one of the most promising of its younger graduates. After a brilliant undergraduate career, he entered business in New York and was on the threshold of a useful and successful life, when he was cut off by an untimely death...
...intention to proclaim here that all men attending the Christmas Eve reception or one of the University teas or similar functions will, on crossing the threshold of Phillips Brooks House, feel immediately the warmth of comradeship with the members of the Faculty, or any particular professor who is more personally interested in the undergraduates as men than as students. We are certain, nevertheless, that such opportunities are often given, and that the President's reception next week is one which should appeal to a goodly number...
...this small knowledge to mould his own life. Christ was not an ecclesiastic, not a theologian, but a simple lover of men who tried to give them happiness. We must remember that happiness is character, what a man is, not what he has. A young man on the threshold of life must try to find out what his mission is and then devote himself to making the world better and happier...
...which this realization of power comes the possibility of pain. On the threshold of life, when we are full of enthusiastic ambitions and expectations, the world challenges us. It is then that we must show our character, manifest our courage and put our manhood to the test. We experience the acceptance of personal responsibility...
...Lectures on Sociology. II. The Moot Points of Sociology. Answers of the Masters to the questions that have blocked the threshold of the Science. The Growing Agreement. Questions settled and questions still open. Professor E. A. Ross. Sever...