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...which we could row a race, still we owed $206 on one that had been bought in 1886. An outcome of our long credit system arising from a lack of proper financial support! The experiment of trying an English boat was thought expedient. It was not safe, however, to trust wholly to an innovation, so a native shell had to be ordered at the same time. This increased expenses, of course, but if the college realized the importance of having a good boat for its crew to sit in, I am sure it would not accuse the management of extravagance...
...very kind friends:- I feel not only honored but deeply moved by the letter you have been good enough to write me. During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure, I trust, to my pupils also. But in my experience as a teacher nothing ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification to an old man) to be tasting...
...enterprise in inviting Prof. Adler to lecture here, and to that eminent moralist for his acceptance of the task. To all those who had the good fortune of listening to him last night, the effect of his earnest and vivid moralizing will be lasting and beneficial. We trust that we have not heard Prof. Adler for the last time and that other men of his stamp may be induced to visit the University and root in it thoughts and sentiments akin to those which he so indelibly impressed upon our minds...
...trust that this warning will be sufficient for the management of the freshman crew and that the future work of the crew will serve as a model for the classes to follow...
...Chapel, we see large numbers of Harvard students: but to anyone who saw the gathering in the Globe Theatre on Sunday evening, the feeling must have come that there is more religion down deep in the hearts of Harvard men than the world has given us credit for. We trust that this new movement will receive all the support it deserves...