Word: commit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...includes in its membership the membership of all the religious and philanthropic societies,--the Christian Association, Catholic Club, St. Paul's society, Religious Union and Social--Service Committee, and many other men who believe in the Phillips Brooks House activities in general, but do not wish to commit themselves to the special point of view of any local society. The Association carries on all the general activities, the results of which serve all societies equally...
...comment, offers some pertinent suggestions. Apart from considerations of the value to literature of the critical essay, the question as a practical matter for undergraduates reduces itself to this: nine out of every ten men--the proportion is probably much larger--when they have occasion after leaving college to commit themselves to print, do so in some form of the essay. As furnishing discipline in this form of writing, no single subject is more interesting to students themselves and to their possible public than literary criticism. With regard to the vexed question of style it may be said that training...
William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen...
...rebuttal. He showed that lax enforcement of the law would not necessarily insure Mayor Low's return to office next year. The great principle of the reform administration is reform and nothing else will satisfy those who elected Mayor Low. But even if defeated Mayor Low should not commit blackmail by promising to connive at the law in return for votes. The principle advanced by the negative is one of local anarchy. The statute says that the Mayor shall enforce the law and the people have declared themselves in favor of enforcement. There is therefore but one course open...
...bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...