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...that this attempt to increase the potential service of Harvard to the country is worth while will be enough for many; while the more conservative, who will demand facts and details, will find plenty of both forth-coming. In this latter exigency, Dean Donham will unquestionably prove of the utmost value. Realizing more fully than anyone else, perhaps, what the possibilities of an independent; fully-equipped Business School are, Dean Donham will combine with his talent for executive work the most intimate knowledge of the uses to which the funds will be put, and of the advantages to business which...
...occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering...
...result from a super-abundance of energy carelessly applied. So far the record of 1927 has been extremely good all in all, but the authorities cannot afford a recurrence of previous situations, and any tendency towards another riot will be sternly suppressed and the offenders treated with the utmost severity. 1927 could establish no more worthy tradition than that of avoiding all appearance of riots and of making large scale disturbances in the Oval henceforth entirely out of order. The Yale Daily News...
...There is one other exhortation which I should like to give you. Avoid to the utmost introspection. Avoid dwelling on your own state of mind. Does that seem to you opposite from the direction I last gave you? I said you should seek to find out where you could get joy in work. No, the joy in work which you will need does not involve self-reference. It does involve study on your part and with the help of teachers and friends, attention to what calling there is, in which you will find joy. But it does not involve introspection...
...fitness of Navy oarsmen. In an institution of Harvard's type it is more difficult to achieve a condition of perfect training, but it is not impossible. Coach Stevens' system of year round training, of long runs and hard workouts, is undoubtedly the only one that will insure the utmost strength in the Harvard shell. Hard work, and hard work alone, can bring the Crimson pennon fluttering in the lead at the end of a long four miles...