Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary channels. But in doing that alone, it has accomplished much; the fact that the service is voluntary and sectarian gives it double value. Professor Shaler liked to speak of chapel as his daily "moral bath--as needful, sir, as the other." Most of us would be content with weekly applications. But to go through a year of college without knowing the genuine satisfaction of an Appleton service, is to neglect one of those opportunities which are almost obligations to one's self...
...feel secretly glad that he is, indeed, dead); and many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters; and, not content with that, scribbled all the way down the margin setting it off in squares just as some of our young aspirants do here at Harvard. Nor are the editors on the Advocate the only fellows who have ever corrected their manuscripts: Voltaire's "Mahomet" looks like a blue book...
...might struggle across the orange pops the blocked his way. And at last it has come dight in sunset livery of scarlet and gold, shedding its mellow rays alike upon the barren walks of the Yard and the Dingy gutters of Plympton street. And the undergraduate rejoices and is content...
...Intercollegiate meet, held last Saturday in the Stadium, is still recent history. California repeated its last year's victory and won with 40 1-2 points. But the University, lacking such stars as Gourdin, Harwood, Krogness, and O'Connell had to be content with sixth place with 14 points. Princeton was second with 31; but the Crimson outscored Yale, which came ninth with 8 1-2 points...
...introduction to technical and professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when we get rid of the idea that a college education is connected with wisdom or has any fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain in clarification. The business of the college will be to defend the existing order...