Word: build
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students; to be of real value they must offer an incentive to work that is worth doing and that will be done even if the prizes are not offered. The Boylston Prizes as they stand, are a gratuity; if they are transferred to debating they will serve to build up one of the most important branches of college work...
...aims and needs of Harvard, athletics should willingly be removed. But as yet no immediate need for the ground has been made known to the undergraduates at large. Until such a need is shown, the nine and the track team should be unmolested and should be allowed to build all necessary grandstands on Holmes Field...
...George E. Weld gave the money necessary to buy the land and build the house, and since that time he has genererously aided the club in its expenses. The students certainly show little gratitude to Mr. Weld for his liberality and he can hardly be expected to continue to interest himself any afther unless he sees some signs of appreciation...
...more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most truly serving humanity in making Nature's treasures available...
...only does Nature furnish us the foundation on which to build; she also gives us the forces wherewith the hard work of the world shall be done. Men are studying and mastering the forces of Nature to make them do their drudgery. God grinds our grist for us if we will...