Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot said that careful students of democratic institutions have maintained that democracy tends to make a people uniform. They have said that the fundamental notion of democracy is equal opportunity, which brings uniformity of character. But equal opportunity is useless in bringing about uniformity, unless it is aided by...
The test of any religion or education is not what it teaches but what kind of men it produces, and in the type of character which the Christian Church produces and in the virtues it inculcates are found its greatest strength. All religious systems eventually end in mystery and an...
The death of Dr. H.P. Bowditch, like that of Judge Lowell only one week earlier, makes the impression upon those who had known him as of the fall of a great forest tree which all had learned to honor and admire. Scientist or jurist, it is, after all, the moral...
Also the proposed arrangement will probably have an important, if less obvious, bearing on the race at New London. Cornell ordinarily succeeds in winning at Poughkeepsie. Therefore, should Harvard succeed in defeating Cornell, the Yale contest would assume a truly championship character.
The honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa was founded during the Revolutionary War, at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, for the purpose of recognizing scholarship and character. A few years later, the second chapter was established at Harvard. Among the men who have won election to this chapter...