Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...occasions. No matter what the provocation may be, the presence of +++ndies at least ought to be a check to such proceedings as these referred to. We would particularly emphasize the fact that this hissing and stamping are perfectly meaningless to the average visitor. Moreover, they seldom accomplish their purpose. The stranger either stands it until it becomes unendurable and then withdraws, or until notified by a director or waiter that he is expected to remove...
...spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...
...course the most important question was in regard to the undergraduate rule which was proposed by Yale. Harvard's position on the rule was plainly shown by the fact that although her representatives voted against it, they proposed a rule for next year which it is believed will accomplish the result aimed at by Yale. The action of the meeting shows that Yale, in addition to having questionable support for the rule in her own college, has practically none at all among the other colleges. To carry the amendment required a two-thirds majority and there was really...
...truth and they furnish many suggestions for student life to-day. The mind is constructed with relation to a certain affinity for truth and the office of growing intelligence is to suit the mind more and more for this affinity. But mind of itself, unaided by another power, can accomplish but little good. The promptings of brain have to be tempered by the heart, and heart and brain together must save the world if it is to be saved at all. The men in whom great intelligence is combined with largeness of heart are the men whom God has chosen...
...centre men break through fairly well but do not know what to do. In defence they not only fail to have a firm position, but do not even watch their opponents. With such men as Hickok and McCrea against them, the centre men have a tremendous amount to accomplish, to make a respectable showing...