Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-minded. It is decidedly inconsistent for Harvard to make an exception in the case of the Army to eligibility standards which Harvard uses itself and demands from other opponents, by the simple expedient of not playing those who do not live up to such standards. It is the constant thought in the minds of undergraduate editors that Harvard would be more courageous and high-principled in practice if it were to take the same stand as the Navy on the three-year eligibility rule. To refuse to play Army, to refuse to accept contracts, to take up the defiance...
Stated differently, the difficulty is that the specialist does not deal with general ideas. Constant thought in the terms of one field lead him to accept unquestioningly fundamental principles. But this uncritical attitude is fatal. For it is exactly in this vagueness about fundamental principles that lie the gravest dangers to modern civilization. The twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation...
...settlement houses this year have cooperated in a helpful way with the work of Brooks House by sending to Cambridge representatives to find out what problems await solution. This kind of work for Harvard undergraduates is one for which there is a constant demand, according to Souter, who is filling the gaps with some of the volunteers who offer to help...
...backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." Indulgently a Manx elder explained: "The backbone of a herring lies 'indifferently'-that is without any 'difference' or deviation to the right or the left-in the fish. Our ancient deemster's oath is a constant reminder that herring was once almost the only food of Manxmen...
...Rhode Island bank deposits go to the State if they have been unclaimed for 15 years. In most States, deposits cease to earn interest after 20 years, must be left inviolate by the bank. Dormant accounts are a nuisance, an expense, since they require constant tracing, frequent publication. In New York State unclaimed deposits come to about $1,500,000 out of five billions...