Word: callings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been done by those outside of our ranks. So I take it that it is not concerning that sort of educational career that you wish me to speak. Herbert Spencer would be an example of the men who have made notable contributions to education, and yet no one would call Herbert Spencer primarily a teacher. He is a scientist, and among other subjects studied education. All well-equipped educators should have a knowledge of the science of the subject, although it is not essential to the teaching profession that scientific knowledge of university principles should be uppermost in his mind...
Compulsory production is most effective when mechanical. Negative consumption creates an excess of happiness or unhappiness, which we call, respectively, tastes and needs. Positive consumption tends to simplify tastes; luxuries are required only by those who have no resources in themselves. Spontaneous consumption is the most useful of these four useful acts. Production is being pursued as an end in itself. When a means is mistaken for an end, that end is sacrificed for the means. The ultimate end must be seen all the time. Less attention should be paid to wealth and more to happiness...
During this morning the members of the University will have their last opportunity to contribute to the collection of old clothes, magazines, and text-books that is being carried on under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association. The wagons will call during the early part of the afternoon at each of the dormitories where a collection has been made. The collectors who have been appointed for the various dormitories will not call at the rooms in person as has been done in past years. Instead, cards have been sent to each person, designating a room conveniently located...
...books that is being carried on under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House, it is necessary that men who still have things which they wish to give should do so sometime today, or at latest, early tomorrow morning. The collectors who have been appointed in each dormitory will not call at the rooms as has been done in past years. Instead, cards have been sent to each room designating a room conveniently located where contributions may be left by those who wish to make them. Men in boarding houses not assigned on the list that was published in Monday...
...Garcelon, Graduate Treasurer, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, as there are a number still to which the ownership has been proven. Those that have been identified will be returned during the week. In most cases, where the losers reside in Cambridge, or nearby, they will be invited to call at the association's office. In the other instances, where there is no doubt of the ownership, the articles will be shipped...