Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...persuading Professor Taussig of Harvard to take the chairmanship of the new Tariff Commission, the country is to be congratulated. In a sense the work the commission has to do lies in a new field, and everything will depend on the way it is done. Congress is not likely ever to abandon any part of its prerogatives in tariff making, but a body of advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement...
...Phillips Brooks House are open daily from 4 to 6 o'clock. Between those hours Mr. W. E. Smith '03, assistant Boy Scout commissioner of Cambridge, will be glad to talk with any members of the University who are interested in scouting. At the present time there is an ever-increasing demand for scout masters and assistants, offering a great opportunity to members of the University who desire to do social service work of this kind. A series of informal talks in Phillips Brooks House is being planned for those who are thinking of taking up the work...
...calling into service of real experts should so diminish it as to make this fault negligible. The Naval Advisory Board is accomplishing what a body of mere seamen cannot do, for such men as Edison in dealing with perplexing questions have a breadth of vision which no admiral could ever possess...
...University has been the successful bidder among many institutions on a collection of minerals, regarded by scientists as one of the finest lots of specimens ever assembled by one man, representing the life-work of the late Elwood P. Hancock, of Burlington, N. J. Being a talented artist and cabinet carver by profession, he increased the attractiveness of the specimens by working out the natural crystals on the face...
...ever denied that enjoyment is easier than work, although no doubt less satisfying. Yet no man ever denied that success in anything, at any time, demands hard and consistent work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well...