Word: existence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist, is to admit it inconsistent with what does exist. But though we have never experienced the completion of ultimate facts, because their completeness is an ideal, have we not still a right to say "God takes account of me as I take account...
Those young men who are enabled to attend college enjoy one of the greatest possible privileges, and thus belong to a very select few in the country. In this University there exist two pre-eminent characteristics,-the one, absolute freedom; the other, absence of limitation upon intellectual labor...
...University and it gives to him. There is about us all, when members of a university, the sense of a soldiers life. The university is the home of the ideal and, as President Gilman once said, if it does not hold up idealism, it has no reason to exist. Such a condition is necessary to oppose to the materialism of the business world. Thus it is that we get religion here in our midst. But the forced religion of the past which formed a part of the College curriculum was incompatible with truth as the standard of Harvard. University life...
This is more true of heavy line men than of backs and ends. Whereas in former years the latter have abounded, it is very probable that toward the middle of next season, when injuries begin to tell, the backs will run short. Should such a scarcity exist, it might produce a very serious situation, as the ends and backs material depends upon a very few men, with little or no reserve to draw on. Campbell, Bowditch, Ristine, J. L. Motley, Morse, Clark and MacDonald constitute the end material, but only the first two are of first rate ability. If they...
...other hand, the people have many and terrible vices. They have no conception of truth, and will say anything in order to benefit themselves. Great dishonesty and corruption exist among the government officials, who live on the money that they acquire dishonestly. Only about one-ninth of the taxes reaches the treasury, the other eight-ninths being stolen by the various officials through whose hands the taxes pass. Justice may be bought, and, in a lawsuit, that side usually wins which pays the court the larger fee. Another feature in the executive government is the extreme cruelty used by officials...