Address Delivered at the Twenty-fourth Annual Commencement of Wellesley College, June XXIII MDCCCCII. |
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athletics believe BRIGGS DEAN HARVARD cabbage CAMBRIDGE Printed capacity for sharper Christian's daughter clog college education COLLEGE JUNE XXIII college loyalty constant dangers DEAN HARVARD COLLEGE DEAN OF HARVARD dignity disparage a college educated women education for women elbow-room every-day evil Fifty-fourth friends friendship gentleman girl of to-day happy hard HARVARD COLLEGE JUNE Hawkins's hearts Honorable Percy ideal intellectual JUNE XXIII MDCCCC kind of girl Kipling's William knowledge L. B. R. BRIGGS DEAN labor less Let us thank LIBRARIES STANFORD light loss of refinement marriage marry masculine minister MINISTRARE never pedantic pedantry poet President Eliot Riverside Press MDCCCCII sharper grief soul steal signs story strength suppose a girl swinward task taste tell Thee things train women TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL University football WELLESLEY COLLEGE William the Conqueror woman of to-day womanhood womanly women as women wrong XXIII MDCCCC II
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Page 9 - Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give ? But — shop each day and all day long ! Friend, your good angel slept, your star Suffered eclipse, fate did you wrong ! From where these sorts of treasures are There should our hearts
Page 11 - Charles Dudley Warner prophesies that, when labor gets to be ten dollars a day, the workmen will not come at all —" they will send their cards." Everywhere men proceed on the assumption that the ideal life is not to work at all and to be paid
Page 9 - the beginning, knowledge has brought its sorrow. Capacity for keener joy means capacity for sharper grief: without capacity for sharper grief there is no capacity for higher service; and the glory of the highest service was the Cross. Whatever you do, do it heart and soul, but do not sell yourself to it: — " Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must lire, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give
Page 23 - that the Fifty-fourth will immortalize itself " — " and," says the soldier who took the message, " in half an hour he was among the immortals." " What has it all been for ? " For the knowledge that makes life richer; for the friendship that makes life sweeter ; for the training that brings power to the task which is hard and high ; for the wisdom that suffers and triumphs and is strong; for the vision that shall light your way like a pillar of fire ; for the truth that shall make you free.