Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violated, if a club member, or members, cultivate the acquaintance of any undergraduate before the opening of college of his Sophomore year with such persistency as to indicate to him that he is under consideration as a future member of the club to which said club member, or members, belong...
...materialize before many years have rolled by but for which no funds have been raised and for which even no definite sites have been chosen. The new gymnasium to take the place of the venerable Hemenway, now some 50 years old, and the plan for a swimming pool belong to this class...
...clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. Still, none of you would be content with this achievement as the total outcome of your lives. It is a happy thing to have in youth what are called animal spirits--a very descriptive phrase; but animal spirits do not last even in animals. They belong to the kitten or puppy stage. It is a wholesome thing to enjoy for a time, or for a time each day all through life, sports and active bodily exercise. These are legitimate enjoyments, but if made the main object of life, they tire. They cease to be a source...
...life? We need a strong mental grip, a wholesome capacity for hard work. It is intellectual power and aims that we need. In all the professions--learned, scientific, or industrial--large mental enjoyments should come to educated men. The great distinction between the privileged class to which you belong--the class that has opportunity for prolonged education--and the much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly...
...course, the executive power of the U. S. would still belong to the President, and he could not be made "responsible" in the British prime minister sense without Constitutional Amendment...