Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course abolition of national prohibition by repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should...
...therefore, a compliment of no mean nature to be asked to lend support to fellow students in a far country, even though under the circumstances, that support must needs be moral rather than physical...
...larger number of students in the College come to Cambridge with no natural means of contact with the community, and many of these go through their first year of College without an opportunity to enter a home in an informal way. The result is that they are very lonely, even though surrounded by classmates...
...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
...should be stimulated. The section men and assistants, who do not arouse enthusiasm should be supplanted, if possible, by more able men. The University should aim, at whatever cost, to obtain an ever increasing number of instructors of the highest calibre. A faculty which has men of national or even international reputation does more than anything else to arouse intellectual and even individual enthusiasm...