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Excerpt from Class of 1882, Baccalaureate Sermon, Class Day Oration, Etc Now what does this mood in which you find yourselves to-day real ly mean? What does it mean - this repeated reference of the parts of life to the end of life and then the transfer of each end as it is reached into a means to a larger end? What does it mean - this re peated broadening of the horizon of one's purposes as though one climbed what seemed a summit and saw on the one hand a larger world about him, and on the other hand a higher summit above? I ask you to see that it means a great deal. In the first place it is the secret of all sagacious, large, effective living. I suppose the very nature of a small life is its momentary fragmentary nature, its finding in piecemeal work a sufficient unity, its getting so bent down over one part of life that it cannot look up and see the breadth and beauty of the whole; and I suppose the very essence of a large life lies in this - that it is not overborne by details or absorbed in fragmentary interests, but that the scattered facts and materials of its experience take their place in the orderly structure of a permanent plan. Who is the small man of science? It is he to whom the acquisition of facts is everything and the meaning of facts is nothing; he to whom fragments of knowledge are sufficient and co-ordinated knowledge is a stranger. Such a man may be a learned man but he remains a small man. He is forever arranging his materials and collecting his specimens but he is in reality drying, pressing and labelling his own life among the rest. And who is the great naturalist? It is he who perceives in the slightest inci dents of his pursuit not merely what they are but what they point to. Each aspect of Nature, however microscopic in itself, is eloquent with suggestions, each part ministers to the theory of the whole; each apparent accident reports the method of a general law. Such a student stands before the apparently trivial phenom ena of the fertilization of a flower or the work of an earth-worm and inquires of them, like a Prophet of Israel -what shall be the end of these things? Who is the small man of business? It is he for whom the immediate results of business are the complete results; for whom it is enough to gain and to thrive from day to day without much thought of what gaining and thriving are. Such a man is forever getting the means to live instead of living; andso it comes to pass that instead of a career broadening with his enlarging means he finds himself more and more shut in by nar rowing and converging walk. He is like a fish swimming uncon sciously into the labyrinth of a weir. The net-work of his occupation hems him in closer and closer, until even in the element where he thinks himself most free he is held a prisoner and the possessions which he thought he had got turn out to have got him. And who is the wise man of affairs? It is he who in the midst of details remains aware of the purpose which details should serve; who in the midst of his getting gets, as the Scripture says, under standing; for whom the parts of life minister to the whole of life. Such a man comes to the end of his work and there is something there. He has not buried all his resources of content in the tomb of professional eminence. The work of his life contributes to the larger needs of his life. He anticipates old age and provides for himself resources which will not then fail. He observes the drift of his vocation and corrects it by refreshing avocations. From the beginning he sees the end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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Excerpt from Harvard College Class of 1895: Baccalaureate Sermon, Baccalaureate Hymn, Class Day Oration, Class Poem, Ivy Oration, Ode In many ways this course was worse adapted to the time than the theological training had been to its time. The theological training had, indeed, given exclusive attention to a single line of inquiry about the relations of man to the universe, but it had, in its way, attempted to solve the problems of life. The Renais sance made no such attempt. The thoughts of the classic authors were admitted to be ill-adapted to modern needs, it was not the thoughts, but the form of these thoughts that was held dear. The object of education became not intellectual inquiry, but intellectual polish. SO highly was this polish prized by the classical humanists that they disregarded the fact that to only a few men would such polish be more than a very small force in their lives; they were not troubled because their system resulted in an extreme cultivation Of the memory to a neglect Of the other faculties Of their students' minds; and at a time when modern society was shaping new institutions and even when modern inquiry was growing rich with discoveries in natural science, they kept aloof, dreading to be disturbed from their worship Of ancient languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Baccalaureate Sermon, and Oration and Poem: Class of 1875 Have we not had experience of this power in our recent his tory? When the news of Fort Sumter ashed through the land, there were in these halls those who seemed to their teachers mere boys, who started at once into vigorous manhood, grew by gradations more rapid than we could trace into high places of command, sought posts of the most perilous service, won ever green laurels, many, alas! Only to deck their graves, - while those who survived achieved for themselves a culture for which twice the term of peaceful civic life would have been inadequate. We had one with us at our last Commencement, the mere muti lated trunk of a man, whose after-dinner speech, with the fervor and fire of youth, which his maimed and suffering life had not chilled or dimmed, had a depth of prescient wisdom which would have found fit utterance from the lips of the elders in the gravest councils of the nation. Indeed, in none of her sons can our University take a more honest pride than in those who gained in war the virtues and endowments that can best adorn and fruc tify the era of restored peace and renewed prosperity. If we could only view them aright, there are now for our re public emergencies, perils intense though insidious, a present to be spurned, a future to be striven for, which ought to awaken the patriotic feeling of our young men, and to urge them on to early maturity for efficient public service. I avail myself of the pres ent as a fit opportunity to speak of the claims of our country on her educated men. Our imminent dangers are from popular ignorance, financial folly, political corruption, and religious lati tudinarianism and indifference. If I can only arouse in those of whom we to-day take leave a sense of the responsibility whichrests upon them as to these sources of evil, I am sure that I shall not have spoken in vain as regards the public and even the national well-being; for, though a hundred and fifty right minded youth seem of no account or weight among the millions of our people, there may be among them single minds and voices that shall make themselves felt and heard through the whole length and breadth of the land, as there were, a hundred years ago, individual young men fresh from our halls, but for whom certain most momentous passages of our history would have remained unwritten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."