Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that Harvard is too much a New England college, and that a man from the West is not welcome here. It is to dispel this unfortunate illusion and to present the true state of affairs in Cambridge that speakers are being sent throughout the country, armed with facts which cannot be controverted...
...feel that the result of these efforts is merely a matter of time. The enthusiasm aroused among the graduates by the visits of the President and his colleagues and the interest shown in their addresses by strangers cannot fail to increase the registration from the West and South to such an extent that it can no longer be said that Harvard does not represent the entire nation...
...each innovation we are more and more surprised by the fact of no one's having thought of it before. The great success of the Harvard Club of Boston is an example of this, and as the various functions of this organization are brought to our notice we cannot understand why its origin is of such recent date. A practice which has become quite common this year is that of extending to leading undergraduates invitations to speak at dinners of the Harvard Clubs throughout the East. The New Bedford Club was about the first to see the possibilities of this...
...Dartmouth alumni as a testimony to the great work of its president, was a prodigious reward. The common notion that our one ambition in life is the pursuit of money is a slander on the American people, for they are ever ready to give rewards to which money cannot be compared, rewards given in reverence and in gratitude. Many alumni of Dartmouth College, people never known by President Tucker, have respected him for a life of service into which money never entered. The long duration and the growing power of our American colleges is a personal product, the work...
...over a large one. The difficulty with this argument is that it is likely not to last, for today Dartmouth is twice as large as Harvard was 40 years ago and just as large as the University of 20 years ago. There is one plea for Dartmouth, however, that cannot be refuted. The exquisite beauty of the surrounding country is sure to have a lasting and invigorating effect on the students of the college...