Word: common
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...servant of the people, he said, must be one of them to appreciate their needs, to understand their feelings, and to be able to represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life...
...bear any weight with those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...
...would be a most excellent unifying factor for future Freshman classes if some such institution existed here; not one of the antiquated and inconvenient buildings of the Yard, but a modern dormitory which could offer to a large number of men comfortable accommodations, possibly a common dining hall to which all members of the class would be eligible, and the greatly increased opportunity for intimate friendship with a larger majority than is possible at present...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Certain Julius Caesar Plays." Mr. H. M. Ayres. "Relations of England and Scandinavia in Literature and History during the Middle Ages." Mr. H. G. Leach. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...structural refinements of Both well, on the other hand, he does not seem sufficiently appreciative. The style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography, a brief table of the chief events in Scottish history might be worth adding; and the long account of Edinburgh Castle would be very...