Word: existence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...broke up the guards back formation and the excellent judgment displayed, the team by no means played a first-class game. Although a very creditable victory was won, the Pennsylvania game showed that the playing of the team is still far from being thoroughly developed and that many faults exist which will need much hard practice to correct and which will prevent any danger from over-confidence...
...estimating that one American in five votes for a person, that one in ten votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types of character, which...
Ample arrangements exist for lodging a large attendance at the school, not-withstanding the expected presence of the fourteen hundred Cuban teachers in Cambridge this summer. Sever Hall and Sanders Theatre will be used entirely by the Cubans as lecture rooms, and for the first time a number of Summer School courses will be given in the lecture rooms of Radcliffe College and the Law School...
...Hirsch of Chicago delivered a sermon last night in Appleton Chapel on "The Need of Man for Religion and the Spiritual Life." Dr. Hirsch said, in part, that the ancient Hebrewa were deeply stirred by the phenomena of nature which they saw about them. The constant struggle for existence made them feel keenly the blessings sent through the rain and the growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing...
...Summer School. Furthermore, the steward and board are to be congratulated on reducing expenses by 150 dollars a week. But if, after the stoppage of so serious a leakage, prices still remain high, there would seem to be a possibility that other leakages as yet undetected may still exist. If the board tell us that improvement is impossible, it is tantamount to saying that the Randall bequest was something of a white elephant, because many of us were better off at Foxcroft last year. Personally I have ceased to nurse the delusion that board can be obtained at Randall...