The Story of Harvard
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He was a man such as appears in a college once or twice in a 173 THE STORY OF HARVARD generation. He was the first scholar of the class throughout his college course. Ardent in mind and temper, handsome, athletic, he was distinguished not only by his love of learning, but also by his ruggechiess of character, his moral steadiness and strength. In every way he appears to have been the acknowledged leader of the class. As a scholar he showed the greatest versatility and the most enthusiastic acqu...isitiveness; he mastered languages and sciences with equal zeal. In his valedictory oration on " The Reverence Due from Old Men to Young, " there is a passage that shows the quality of his thought and expression, even at the age of nineteen: " Mere action is no proof of progress; we make it our boast how much we do, and then grow blind to what we do. Action here is the Minotaur which claims and devours our youths. Athens bewailed the seven who yearly left her shore; with us scarce seven remain, and we urge the victims to their fate.
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He was a man such as appears in a college once or twice in a 173 THE STORY OF HARVARD generation. He was the first scholar of the class throughout his college course. Ardent in mind and temper, handsome, athletic, he was distinguished not only by his love of learning, but also by his ruggechiess of character, his moral steadiness and strength. In every way he appears to have been the acknowledged leader of the class. As a scholar he showed the greatest versatility and the most enthusiastic acqu...isitiveness; he mastered languages and sciences with equal zeal. In his valedictory oration on " The Reverence Due from Old Men to Young, " there is a passage that shows the quality of his thought and expression, even at the age of nineteen: " Mere action is no proof of progress; we make it our boast how much we do, and then grow blind to what we do. Action here is the Minotaur which claims and devours our youths. Athens bewailed the seven who yearly left her shore; with us scarce seven remain, and we urge the victims to their fate.
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