Word: accomplish
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...civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...spirit of winning at any cost, and he is often willing to employ all the "tricks of the trade" or to deceive the umpire by some little ruse. Now such tactics ought never to be introduced into college athletics. They must above all be kept clean in order to accomplish their purpose of teaching healthful manliness. A glance at the newspapers during the league baseball season will show the number of petty disputes which occur between players and umpires, too often when the player knows he is in the wrong. Besides this the professional usually has his own reputation...
After a short outline of the city government of Boston, Mr. Stone described the formation of the Good Government Association, which arose from the need of the investigation of the records of candidates for the City Council. To accomplish this, the Association, by means of volunteer investigators, traces carefully the records of all candidates, and sends printed circulars describing them to the voters. It has had an increasing success, last year placing the four men recommended for aldermen at the top of the poll...
...work in combination with a considerable body of his fellows it is safe to set him down as unfit for useful service in a democracy. In popular government results worth having can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense, who are resolute to accomplish good purposes...
...high praise to say that in many lines it comes very close to the spirit of its title. "The Salvation Army", by Witter Bynner '02, is a half quizzical bit of verse, which very aptly phrases the attitude of those "who stand aside and say, 'O, they accomplish good.'" The number as a whole represents well, if not so completely as one might wish, the literary traditions on which the Advocate has been standing for forty years...