Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns, but it cannot lay hand upon wealth and make it pay its share of the expenses of government...
...things continue in this present state. The books now on the shelves of the Library have come either from the authors themselves, from the Hyde fund, or as special gifts from individuals and societies. It is not likely that such gifts will continue if it appears that the Library cannot keep safely the books which it already has. He who removes one book from the Library does an act against the welfare of the Union,--an act not only of gross selfishness, but one that deserves the utmost contempt of every Harvard man. Needless to say the Committee would show...
...name has yet been definitely decided upon. The usual custom of naming buidings after their donors cannot in this instance be followed as the donor has withheld his name. The "Lecture Hall" or "Harvard Lecture Hall" have been suggested as appropriate names...
...second great power of Jesus is His power of helping us to do what is right. He not only shows us what we should do, He powerfully helps us to do it. And the man of the highest aspirations and truest endeavor cannot but feel every day the need of a power, greater than himself, to help him to be what he desires to be. Christ not only helps us in our own development, He helps us to be of service to others. We are too apt to be satisfied with polite unselfishness instead of the great, robust sacrifice which...
...first reason is that ignorance is power. It is often said that the spotless man cannot help and sympathize with the man who has sinned, because of his own inexperience in sin-as if a doctor should not set a broken arm unless his own arm had been fractured. A man does not need to soil his won life to help to purify the lives of others. The great power in life belongs not to the man who is tarnished but to the man who is innocent. It is Jesus Christ, the unstained, who is the most powerful figure...