Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
...Eastman's opinion of Phi Beta Kappa in particular appears to be rather typical of the present critical attitude of students toward scholastic standards. But, whatever one's opinion of these standards, they nevertheless exist; and the fact that Phi Beta Kappa must conform to them does not mean that it approves of them. Mr. Eastman's rejection of what seems to him a hollow honor is praiseworthy enough morally; but it seems that he is confusing the empty titles so much beloved these days with a distinction that is real. It is to be hoped that his action will...
...valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions in secondary schools. But with a separation, as President Lowell urges, of the preparation for the two degrees, potential doctors will no longer be restricted by the credit courses which the commercialized lower degree...
...manners, and it is the opportunity for the enjoyment of such freedom which we would seek to maintain for you at Harvard. The times in which we live have got very far away from those in which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem to spring in modern times from the allegiance which is bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less...
...Christ's Church not only must exist for all time, but must moreover, exist exactly as it was in the apostolic times, lest we are ready to admit either that Jesus Christ failed of His purpose or erred when He affirmed that the gates of perdition never shall prevail against His Church...