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...child by me, and my doctors warn me that if I have a child I shall die in childbed, and that is out of the question. This apart, I may live yet so many years that if after my death you married again you might not be able to beget children...
...human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal and imperishable. Just as love begets love so does love beget hate.' Hence he inculcates the necessity of using 'right' weapons to remove the 'wrongs...
...pleasant to note, at this critical time in our country's history, that there are still among us some men who can view the situation with "thoughtful deliberation." We learn in psychology that the purpose of thinking is to beget action. For two years Harvard has been considering the international situation with "thoughtful deliberation." The time for action has come. Those of us who are intrinsically unpatriotic have let that action take the form of joining the R. O. T. C. There is however, an exceptionally patriotic group which, deliberating thoughtfully over the fact that the German government is sparing...
...Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Co., will deliver an address under the auspices of the Electric Club, on "The progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of Today." The address, generally, will deal with the tendency shown by great advances in applied electricity to beget and surround themselves by numerous subsidiary appliances-as illustrated by the growth of telephonic communication...
...must therefore "cram," and in doing this must neglect his other courses. It is no child's play to plough through all the notes he must have taken by this time of the year on his various studies. An occasional hour examination is possibly a good thing to beget interest, but that good is hardly great enough, to my mind, to countenance the prevalence of them that now exists. Already this term I have had six; doubtless others have had more...