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...will not submit to changes unless they are gradual. To reform the manners of the students we must reform the manners of the overseers. Another line of criticism among undergraduates has been about the choice of studies as being novel and as representing a too fast movement. I want to point out the fact that Harvard College has been too conservative and slow. Years ago it was pointed out that Harvard College must be changed from a school of the eighteenth century to a university of the nineteenth century. It is nearly twenty years since the elective system was adopted...
...face, a strong body, a ready wit,-of all those things, indeed, for which we are not responsible; but no one is ever proud of trying hard. We may decree as much as we like that trying hard is the sum total of virtue, yet no one will ever want a prize for faithful endeavor. To be able to do easily what other people do with difficulty, or what they cannot do at all, that is what we are proud of and what we admire...
...agent or fact in his choice, is he not there by relieved of all responsibility? Surely, this new force, if such there be, must not be uncaused; not only is such a supposition contrary to reason, but it defeats the very object for which it was framed. We want to prove that the man himself is the cause of his acts: this supposed new force must therefore be evolved, according to some law, out of the man's inmost nature, if it is to be the true expression of the man or if the man is to be held responsible...
...this case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing the real question. We may assume that men are swayed by motives, and that they are apt to go where the strongest one drives them. What we want to know is this: could I with these same fixed motives have acted differently? Is my choice essentially independent not only of present circumstances, but also of my past circumstances and settled character; so that each act of my will is not a result from their union, but a new force...
...business. Be also influential in a way that treats of subjects even more serious. To do this you must school yourselves now-and here-in we find the origin and purpose of the college Y. M. C. A. The world needs men who mean something, who want to do something, and who know...