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...career" so as to get the greatest amount of comfort with the least amount of trouble? I think that every one must feel sometimes that certain high desires and beliefs are worth more to him than anything he possesses or can ever hope to possess in this world. And must we not acknowledge that these high desires lead up to something very like "the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue," which our author affects so greatly to despise? "Affects," I say, for he does not believe the barren creed he professes; he holds to a higher...
...forgotten the boundless hopes of his boyhood that he dies with the feeling that he is a successful man, - that the little money he has gotten, the little knowledge he has learned, or the little good he has done entitles him to cry "Plaudite" to all the world? Do not revelation and the words of the greatest men teach us to consider that the highest utterance men can make on leaving the world is a confession of failure, - "We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which it was our duty...
Stand proudly forth, the mistress of the world...
That carried Venus Victrix through the world...
...students to serve, they do their work very satisfactorily; the food is cooked much better than at the Thayer, and is served infinitely better; and the members of the club have the privilege, to quote the words of President Eliot, of dining in "the grandest college-hall in the world." There was one other inducement held out to the men to change the Commons into the Harvard Dining-Hall Association, namely, the moral improvement that would result from constantly sitting under the ridge-pole of the "grandest college-hall in the world." When this prediction was made, very few were...