A man coming here from the outside can, perhaps, see more clearly than those who are all the time enjoying the surroundings and can realize how great a privilege it is which the generosity of Col. Higginson has allowed to us of Harvard to…

But the nation is badly off if in addition to this there is not a very much higher standard of conduct, a standard impossible effectively to establish by statute, but one upon which the community as a whole, and especially the real leaders…

I feel that this union is one of the most important elements in shaping a right Harvard life.

We need men with these ideals in public life, and we need them just as much in business and in such a profession as the law.

I don't know whether the undergraduates realize what a beautiful building, what a beautiful hall, what beautiful surroundings, these are.

It is far more important that they should conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend the surplus of their fortunes in philanthropy.

The very rich man who conducts his business as if he believed that he were a law unto himself thereby immensely increases the difficulty of the task of upholding order.

We have a right to demand that they set an example to their less fortunate brethren by paying scrupulous heed not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the laws.

Of course I am for peace.

We can by statute establish only those exceedingly rough lines of morality, the overpassing of which means that the man is in jeopardy of the constable or the sheriff.

The chief use of the increased money value of the scholar's prize would be the index thereby afforded of the respect in which it was popularly held.

Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it.

It seems to me that there is no other institution which so embodies and typifies the true spirit of Harvard as this union—the spirit which stands for what is highest, of brotherhood, of genuine allegiance to the university as such.

I want to congratulate you, as I always do when I come here, upon the delightful physical surroundings of the union.

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly remunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in this country of a spirit…

The only personal request that I made as to the programme of these two days was that I should be given the chance of saying a word to my fellow members of the Harvard Union.

And now I am going to ask you to join with me in three times three for Col. Higginson.

But I am for one thing before peace—I am for righteousness first.

It is a bad thing for any college man to grow to regard sport as the serious business of life.

I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.

I want you to have high ideals, but practical ideals.

And they look like mighty nice children, too.

It can only come if the officers entrusted with the administration of the law remember that it is exactly as much their duty to protect the railroad from the public as to protect the public from the railroad.

He said that at Adams I would be gratified by seeing any number of children.

I have always regretted that it was not within my power to come here when they dedicated the monument to his memory, but I am deeply thankful to Mr. Plunkett for the interest he has shown in being the first mover in the erection of a…