Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent speech, and the policies suggested therein. Anyone who is in any way in sympathy with his proposals and sees in a league of nations, or at least a common understanding among nations, a possible solution of the difficulties of the future, (something worth trying, even though its success cannot be mathematically demonstrated),--any such person should consider the adoption of universal military service in its light. President Wilson proposes essentially that the United States be ready to join with the other nations in guaranteeing, among other things, that the world at large be secured against aggression. The question...
...salary and expense item of $1,020,000. The discrepancy is made up from tuition fees and other income, but this shows that although the University, on account of its large capital fund, might be judged, opulent, a greater part of this money is restricted to special uses and cannot be used for salaries...
There can be no question but that Harvard men will fulfill in practice what they have approved in theory. With young men willing to undergo sacrifice for their country, here and in other universities, and among non-University men, the future of our nation cannot be but full of promise...
...course, books have to be borrowed and the institutions which lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds...
Miss Annettee Kellermann appears to great advantage throughout the piece, and her diving and other nautical accomplishments are those of a sea-artist--surely such a thing exists. But Miss Kellermann, with all her marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended...