Four Addresses: By Henry Lee Higginson. The Soldiers' Field : The Harvard Union I: The Harvard Union II: Robert Gould ShawD.B. Updike, 1902 - 106 páginas |
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Four Addresses: By Henry Lee Higginson. The Soldiers' Field : The Harvard ... Henry Lee Higginson Visualização integral - 1902 |
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Página 20 - THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — • " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 10 - Field," and marked with a stone bearing the names of some dear friends, — alumni of the University, and noble gentlemen, — who 4 gave freely and eagerly all that they had or hoped for, to their country and to their fellow-men in the hour of great need — the war of 1861 to 1865 in defence of the Republic.
Página 15 - ... had soon after leaving college exhausted himself by overwork. After distinguished service with his regiment and on the staff of General McClellan, who singled him out for honor, he led his troopers of the Second Massachusetts cavalry in the Shenandoah campaign of '64, was always in the front, lost thirteen horses in his daring efforts to win success, and at last, when so wounded that he could not speak, rode forward in his last charge, when Sheridan had come back to win the battle of Cedar Creek....
Página 43 - ... results. The government of the University has steadily striven to offer the largest opportunities for instruction, — lecturerooms, dormitories, athletic buildings and grounds, — and thus has drawn an ever-growing stream of students to its doors. And by this very action it has unwittingly imperiled the comradeship and social life of the University. The old clubs, with their happy traditions, are delightful; but their membership is small, and entails expenses too large for most young men. Thus...
Página 26 - ... presently you will enjoy the labor. Remember that the idle and indifferent are the dangerous classes of the community. Not one of you would be here and would receive all that is given to you, unless many other men and women had worked hard for you. Do not too readily think that you have done enough, simply because you have accomplished something. There is no enough, so long as you can better the lives of your fellow-beings. Your success in life depends not on talents, but on will. Surely, genius...
Página 25 - The world on all sides is moving fast, and you have only to accept this fact, making the best of everything — helping, sympathizing, and so guiding and restraining others, who have less education, perhaps, than you. Do not hold off from them; but go straight on with them, side by side, learning from them and teaching them. It is our national theory and the theory of the day and we have accepted it, and must live by it, until the whole world is better and wiser than now. You must in honor live by...
Página 17 - ... his country and to all wrong-doers. He also fell wounded in that most foolish battle, where his regiment lost fourteen out of twenty-two officers, and was sacrificed to the good of the army. He died in the hands of the enemy, who tended him kindly and were deeply moved by his patience and his fortitude.
Página 24 - Everywhere we see the signs of ferment, — questions social, moral, mental, physical, economical. The pot is boiling hard and you must tend it, or it will run over and scald the world. For us came the great questions of slavery and of national integrity, and they were not hard to answer. Your task is more difficult, and yet you must fulfil it. Do not hope that things will take care of themselves, or that the old state of affairs will come back. The world on all sides is moving fast, and you have...
Página 23 - They delighted in athletic games, and would have used this field, which is now given to the College and to you for your health and recreation. But my chief hope in regard to it is, that it will help to make you full-grown, well-developed men, able and ready to do good work of all kinds — steadfastly, devotedly, thoughtfully; and that it will remind you of the reason for living, and of your own duties as men and citizens of the Republic.
Página 102 - Right in the van, On the red rampart's slippery swell, With heart that beat a charge, he fell Foeward, as fits a man: But the high soul burns on to light men's feet Where death for noble ends makes dying sweet...