Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose of this society is "to unite men of various views and faiths in a mutual interchange of religious thought and a common search for truth; to develop and impress the idea of the value of the religious element in character and action, and thus to increase in its members that ethical enthusiasm and purpose which is the result alike of intellectual breadth and moral earnestness...
...been previously announced, the completion of Professor Langdell's twetny-five years of service as Dean of the Law School was made the occasion of an extended celebration in his honor. Sir Frederick Pollock delivered in Sanders Theatre an oration of great interest on "The Vocation of the Common Law." At the dinner held in the Gymnasium after the oration, speeches were made by President Carter, Dean Langdell, Sir Frederick Pollock, Justice Horace Gray '45, Justice Henry B. Brown L. S. '59, Judge O. W. Holmes '61, Joseph H. Choate '52, S. Kurino L. S. '81, Japanese Ambassador, and President...
...Upon our common school system democracy stands. That the children of this republic receive the foundation of an education and gain the elements of a firm character is essential. Because the public schools are concerned with the rudiments of education and with children, the sentiment has sometimes gone abroad that any sensible average American can undertake the responsibility of our schools. The public schools have therefore in a few large cities fallen into the hands of politicians and the institution on which our public safety depends has become the football of political parties and ward room deals. In many...
...needed to give every individual fair play, already Harvard's student life offers advantages for a great number of diversified tastes, - but now we should organize the club which shall bind all these units together and give the student life of the University what it has never had, - a common meeting ground, a centre to and from which the many social activities would flow, an abiding-place for true Harvard spirit, and a source whence an enlightened and authoritative public opinion might spring...
...often asserted that the class games are chiefly of worth in that they give occasion for the display of class feeling; but we are reluctant to believe that class feeling is dependent for its existence on such outbursts of extravagant and inconsiderate enthusiasm as are now common at the games. Regard for the absolute as well as for the relative merits of the opposing nines can be cultivated at the same time with the most extreme partisanship...