The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-18
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
NOTES.

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the college is in session on tn
first Sunday of the year. | tax
this unusual occasion to speak t
you about the right Apprehension
of time. How shall one train him
self to think of time? The melan
choly which some persons affec
when they consider the passage o
time, has no religious value, M
value Of any kind. God has Sc
in our hearts an ineradicable love
of life, and side by side with it
the ineradicable expectation O.
life. If He had given us the love
of life without the eXpecta tiCn q
it, He would have given us the
greatest curse with which He
could have cursed us. The stead
fast expectation of continued life
in the midst of it's manifold I'M
certainties, is one of the surest
signs of the thoughtfulness of
Gods mercy. We ought, then, to
accustOm ourselves to think of
time as a personal possession, to
be measured in personal terms. A
man should ask himself with the
most interest, at any given time,
not how old he is, but how true,
or strong, or rich he is. Time that
has not made valuable deposits
in a mans life, is not worth reck-
Oning. 1t is these deposits which
we need to guard, just as we need
to beware of those accumulations
which are formed through uncon-
scious but unworthy habits. We
ought to accustom ourselves to
think of time as an associated pos
session. We speak rightly of our
times, our generation. The Col
lege may, at one time, in some
respects be better than the Col
lege at another time, but to us, it
is always the College of which we
were a part, and which we shared
with our contemporaries. The
nation of today, is our country
in different sense from the ma
ton of our fathers, or of our
sons. Friendships are born out
of present relations, out of the
common toll and struggle and
defeat or triumph. Whatever we
possess is nightly enriched by
the power to share it with others,
and of nothing is this so true as
of time. We ought to accustom
ourselves to think of time as a
permanent possession. Carlyle
used to say of time, that 'Every
moment of it, rests upon
eternity" He might have said
that it was embedded in eternity.
This is the glory of the life,
which otherwise seems so fleet
ing. A man says something at
a given moment, or does some
thing, which gives him an abid-
ing place, as the world moves
on. The class of a hundred years
ago 1907, graduated Sylvanus
Thayer and George TicknOr; one
built himself into institutions, es-
pecially at West Point, known
there as "The Father of the Mil
itary Academy, and the other
himself in literature.
has occurred in a hun
1red years to disturb them. Over
against the apparent insecurities
Of time, stands this one abiding
glory. 1t gives every one the OPP
portunity of making a safe
Judgment in that which is eter-
nal. In the older Scriptures there
IS this graphic word which a
said to her king, as he was
1eeing from his enemies, '"The
soul of my Lord the King shall
De bound in the bundle Of life,
with the Lord thy God"
Pres. Tucker leaves Hanover
his week for an extended trip
through the West, to be absent five
weeks.
A Dartmouth Alumni meeting,
With banquet, was held at The
House in Boston, Jan
18th. Music was rendered by Sc
ected members, of the present
undergraduate classes.
The Dartmouth musical clubs |
lave returned to Hanover, after
/ very successful trip, having been
heard in Albany, Boston, Brook
YIN and New York City.
Lovers of music heard a choral !
ervice of Christmas music, given
" the College Choir and Prof.
Morse on Sunday evening, Dec.
9Th. The program was as follows
Organ Prelude, Largo in g, Han
lei; College Choir, Gonnod's Mass,
70. /, Chas. GOnnod, a. Kyrie
GleisOn, b. Gloria in Excelsis, c.
Sanctus, d. o Salutaris, e. Agnus
Del; Organ, Passionate from The
Messiah, Handel.
On Tuesday eve, Jan. 10, an il
ustrated lecture by Mr.. Harold
ernest Baynes will be given under
he auspices of the "Woman's Lit
rary Society" Public cordially
invited.