Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...libraries in Boylston, Emerson, Pierce, and Robinson are kept open in the evening, Harvard Hall closes at 5 o'clock and books may be taken out at 4 o'clock. The result is that men who are unable to be at the library in the middle of the afternoon cannot get books. This proves a hardship for most athletes and other men who wish to spend their afternoons in regular exercise...
...than formerly. An attempt to estimate how creditable or otherwise is this showing of a voluntary attendance of 12 per cent. of the total College enrollment, must include a consideration of several other facts. In the first place, the number of men who are away from Cambridge over Sunday cannot be less than 25 per cent. of the total. Moreover, most Episcopalians and all Roman Catholics attend their own churches. Also, Dr. Crother's church has an average student attendance of 40. Finally, a considerable number of men attend Boston churches on Sunday mornings. Remembering these facts...
...section on cutting in the last report of the Dean of Harvard College reveals a condition of undergraduate laxity concerning College engagements which, upon serious consideration, cannot but appear wholly deplorable. By means of statistics prepared at the Office, the Dean shows that on the average every man in College cuts one engagement every week throughout the College year. This makes a total of 75,220 unexcused absences...
...question before us is to define the total impression of the life of Jesus on the world, and to express our relation to it. It is in this total view of things that the Christian religion appeals to mankind. It is essentially a religion for human beings, and we cannot seriously maintain that any religion will take the place of one which is so broadly human and universal...
President Lowell said that the great difficulty encountered in government research is that the facts and theories of government are very far apart, that until the facts are mastered, the real machinery of government cannot be known. In the research necessary to discover these facts there are two sources which may be consulted: Books and men. The great faults to be found in books are that they are often compiled from other books and therefore give expression to theories and supposed facts which are really obsolete truths. They are deliberate thoughts and cannot be asked questions. Yet even in consulting...