Word: constants
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...black look white because the general public was not informed. Reform is discredited in American cities because its devotees have informed neither themselves nor the public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...
...public-spirited private citizens is very essential to the maintenance of good government and the hearty co-operation of every citizen is also needed. Every member of a community should be responsible for the actions of its officers, not merely by voting, on election day, but by keeping in constant touch with the acts of these officials and seeing that they do not misuse their power...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...rare occasions there may be some excuse for many demonstrations in class rooms, but of late such occasions seem to be the rule rather than exceptions. In spite of constant appeals from the professors and instructors, there will remain some ill-mannered persons who greet every unusual incident or remark with stamping and shuffling. When a lecturer tries to enliven the dry subject matter of a course by the introduction of interesting anecdotes or personal experiences, he is greeted with an uproar from those whose over-developed sense of humor blinds their sense of decency. The lecturer, very naturally fails...
...Arthur Whiting, assisted by Mrs. Edith Chapman Goold, gave the first of his expositions of classical and modern chamber music in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum last night. He was greeted by an audience which more than filled the hall, and which by its constant enthusiasm made it clear that there exists among the members of the University a desire to hear and understand good music...