Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long as we confine ourselves merely to prohibiting abuses and leave the cause of them untouched? We have seen that the cause of the fluctuation of rates and of the favoritism shown to large towns was excessive competition. True statesmanship would strike at the root of the matter and destroy this competition...
...proposed, make the Union all that they could make a new society. In fact the members of the Union are likely to do this themselves before long. The account of the arrangements for the Yale debate and the editorial approval of them in Friday's "CRIMSON" rather tend to destroy the effect which the second "94" man tries to make. The Harvard Union alone has kept alive the interest in speaking in the University, the Harvard Union has arranged the Yale debates which have given such a stimulus to the interest in speaking; the Harvard Union offers to the undergraduates...
...revelations by a method of beginnings; beginnings used in the sense of the flowing stream, with ever fresh eddies and turns, ever starting some new action, and yet itself one continuous endless whole. Observe that this idea of repeated fresh starts does not in any way destroy the continuity of nature. Any study of her processes is but the making of new discoveries, and then in their light and the light of what has gone before, making fresh beginnings in the steady onward progress. No where does there come a break...
Hutchins Hapgood writes a short plea for the preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which...
...knows how much longer it takes to learn a lesson, if he is all the time on the verge of falling asleep, than if he could put all his energies into his work. Close air in a recitation room brings on this sleepiness; fresh air will do much to destroy...