Word: actually
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Religion, President Eliot said, means many things in this world: to some it is a magnificent ceremonial; to others, a certain sacred administration by a privileged or exalted class; and to still others, beauty, decorum, pomp. He defined the religion needed in the college community of today as "that actual code of ethics which your community, race, nation or generation has evolved; that code infused and vivified by some sort of love of sentiment...
...financial improvements which are anticipated from it. But even the increase of less than a dollar, required immediately to reduce the membership by 988 would be diminished each year for three years, until in 1906 and forever after the possible number of shares would far outrun the actual membership of the Society. This result is plainly necessary from the figures, for the last eight years, of the increase in the size of the University, the membership of the Society, and its capital stock. Indeed, so far as the number of available shares goes, every person connected with the University might...
...absolutely and conclusively by a small group of members who attend in a body, imperiling the interests of the overwhelming percentage of unrepresented ticket-holders. Since this chance of "faction rule" comes about from giving every ticket holder of the Society a vote at all meetings and from the actual lethargy or the great body of members, we may say that a representative vote on any question whatever is at present impossible with student control...
There are two objects immediately in view in this year's administration of the Infirmary, one of which is the discovery of the best way of making it pay its expenses. The other and more important object, however, is to start the Infirmary on its actual service to sick members of the University, and to gain from the year's experience a practical idea of its working needs, on which, after all, the financial plan must ultimately be based. It is important, therefore, that the registration under the four-dollar plan should be up to the minimum number...
...class debating clubs and the large attendance in the various College courses connected with debating soon made it evident that there was not room for an actual debating club open to the different classes. If was then that the University Debating Club took on the purely administrative character which it has since had, and adopted the narrower restrictions at present governing its membership...