Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death of Professor Norton the University and the community at large have lost a personality whose widely extended influence for good, during more than one generation, cannot be adequately told. Professor Norton was not only a man of high scholarly attainments and ideals, but he was a citizen who had the welfare of the community at heart, and took an active part in its concerns as far as need required and opportunity offered. He was also a warm-hearted and hospitable friend to a wide circle of men of many callings, and was always ready to serve them...
...cases of sudden change of rule, the people must go through a period of tutelage, for they cannot be expected to be transformed from a state of absolute subjection to entire self-government at a single step. We try to develop the individual unit, to educate and civilize the people according to western ideas of civilization, and in the end to leave them absolutely self-governing. What the Philippine Islands need, is not new laws, not financial assistance, not a change of policy, but merely the removal of all tariffs. Up to the present time all administration has been along...
...crews to report regularly and give an opportunity for the crew to get together so that a creditable showing can be made when the bumping races are held. A crew that is on the river so short a time before the race and composed of men of limited experience cannot expect much success if the captain and coach are constantly handicapped by the absence of different men from...
Professor Lowell, speaking on the benefits of college life, deprecated the tendency away from competition which would put all the effort of college undertakings on a dead level. In athletics or in study one cannot cultivate himself up to his greatest efficiency without measuring himself against the next...
...most important features of the School will be the practical work required of each student in the summer. The object of this work will be two-fold, first, to teach the students from practical experience and observation the elements of business that cannot be taught in the class-room, and secondly, to bring them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School...