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...their best unless the odds are against them. There will be not a few Harvard supporters on the Princeton field to cheer the team. But whether there or here in Cambridge, each member of the University has the hope of a successful outcome of today's contest uppermost in his mind...
...would call Herbert Spencer primarily a teacher. He is a scientist, and among other subjects studied education. All well-equipped educators should have a knowledge of the science of the subject, although it is not essential to the teaching profession that scientific knowledge of university principles should be uppermost in his mind. Some of the very best teachers I have known, and some of the very best teachers that you have known, are not versed primarily in the science of education. Some of the very best scholars with whom you have come in contact here at Harvard, may have impressed...
...forth today to decorate the graves of all heroes no matter in what war they fought, but the Civil War is naturally uppermost in our minds." General Porter than gave a short account of the war, stating the feelings which the progress of the struggle created throughout the North...
...objectionable traditions which we inherited from the days when Harvard was a College, but which today, as a University built on broad and free lines, we have long since outgrown. Such things have their place in various undergraduate communities where the college as a wholly unique social species is uppermost in the minds of all, and where the atmosphere is best described by the very word "college." We congratulate the University and as undergraduates congratulate ourselves that this pernicious institution has been permanently laid on the shelf...
...hoped before this for a final settlement of the phase of the question now uppermost, but it is believed that a general understanding between all parties concerned is necessary to a satisfactory solution. May we not have long to wait! Everyone is anxious to know where affairs are ultimately to stand; but will agree heartily to the proposed conference, if it is to be a means to a speedy, permanent and more satisfactory...