Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...above who cannot serve are requested to notify W. G. Graves '06, 56 Mt. Auburn street, this morning...
...disposition of the criminal side of the case, therefore, does not and cannot enter into the arrangement. As a criminal act the breaking into Phillips Brooks House is beyond the province of the Faculty. It remains, then, to be dealt with as an infraction of College discipline. With that, the College authorities exclusively have to do, and they must decide what is to the best permanent interest of College discipline, without any regard to the irrelevant newspaper talk which not only assumes that the offender is to be let off by the court, but would make the College responsible...
...actions are criminal--the motive of crime is lacking. Foolish and childish they may be and inspired by the same love for excitement, that made us as boys "book" apples from the neighbor's barn or ring his door-bell at the imminent risk of being spanked, but they cannot be called criminal...
...recent attack on Phillips Brooks House was an evidence of poor taste and also of a certain unfortunate disregard for the feelings of the College community, but the attack was not made with the same motive as that which incites the ordinary burglar and cannot therefore be put in the same class...
...young look back on history, recent or remote, as all of one piece, for such it is to them. But those who have lived through a potent period of history, such as the Civil War, cannot take this distant view of their own achievements and misfortunes. Yet there are many Americans who misconstrue the events of the war, or who seek to minimize its issues. That great struggle was the trial of an indictment against human freedom under the disguise of a contention for the disputed right of secession. But behind that long maintained and often honestly supported right...