Word: commit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years of academic life. Yet to be really valuable, such information as to the relation of college training to future success can be given only after future success, or failure, has been achieved. In other words, graduates of twenty-five or fifty years standing are far better qualified to commit themselves on be question. However, in spite of its imitations, we welcome this new way of approaching the problem. Only too much have the notions of prejudiced and ill-natured opinions prevailed and influenced the public's conception of the value and meaning of collegiate training...
...involves some sacrifice, or it would have no moral significance. It would be nothing but a highly intelligent selfishness. If you are not prepared for sacrifice you are not in harmony with a moral order in the world. "If you are not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? If you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your...
...indissoluble partnership which may be of great value to each side. The city in large measure creates the atmosphere in which the University lives: clean streets, pure water, public order, a community living on a high level of education and morality, make conditions to which parents willingly commit their sons. The University is only meeting its fair share of the mutual obligations in offering the services of its staff to help in the improvement of the conditions under which both it and the city must live. It is gratifying to know that these services are strengthening the bonds of good...
Lord Stonbury, who is the centre of an artificial social group, is just about to commit suicide partly from financial losses and partly from what appears to be chronic ennui when the Faun appears. Led by a desire to know what men are like, the Faun has come to England from a convenient Mediterranean country, and agrees to give Lord Stonbury tips on the horse-races provided that the Lord will introduce him into society. The first act closes on the rather humorous attempts of the Faun to adopt the dress and manners of conventional society...
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo was then introduced by President Eliot to speak on "Citizenship." No man should commit himself irrevocably to any political party; organization in politics is necessary, to be sure, and no one should keep aloof from them out of conceit; but every voter should be master of himself and decide for himself. What counts is development of character; if we look to this, we shall help in that movement of the people which is the most inspiring on earth today...