Address at the Commencement Dinner, Harvard University, June 26, 1889 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address at the Commencement Dinner, Harvard University, June 26, 1889The discreditable stories which have been so widely circulated about our College have brought upon us the scrutiny of a wholearmy Of reporters, and, whatever of truth or of falsehood there may have been in the sensational paragraphs they have pub lished, of this I am sure, that few societies of men, however sacred their object, could have borne the scrutiny as well. When I have indignantly repelled the scandals, I have been told that I knew nothing about that phase of college life. Thank God I do know nothing about it, and I am in con stant association with hundreds on hundreds of young men who know as little about it as I do. We do not expect to solve the problem of evil at Harvard in this genera tion, but there is this very marked difference between the evil in¿uences of to-day and those of only a few years back. Then the evil was everywhere pervasive. The classes were so small that all the members were brought into more or less intimate associa tion, and one could not avoid meeting the hateful forms of vice, however greatly he.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.