Word: existence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...live far away and to those who live near, and especially to those who are unable to go to their homes, the CRIMSON extends the merriest of holiday greetings. Comfortably resting far from nine o'clock recitations, the College Office, these, and all the other vexations of our Cambridge existence, one may wonder whether such things really exist; are they not rather a dream, a bad dream, full of a succession of never-ceasing worries invented to dog our weary footsteps? Almost convinced, we put the thought of them far back in the darkest and dustiest corner of our minds...
...lecture last night on "The Civic Functions of the Theatre," Mr. Percy MacKaye '97 maintained that a civic ideal for the theatre existed, but that it had at present no important influence on account of the lack of the proper means to realize it. This means is endowment, without which no public institution can exist...
...system of individualism advocated is based on common sense and justice, and is not extreme, for an extreme system does not exist. In economics and politics it has a distinct meaning, a theory favoring non-interference of the State in the affairs of individuals. It is also defined as the private ownership of the means of production and distribution where competition is possible...
Among his other wise sayings Aristotle remarked that man is by nature a social animal; and it is in order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
President Lowell continued the discussion of cosmopolitanism. It is now several hundred years since it has ceased to exist. Perhaps what is best for the destiny of the modern world must be worked out by nationalities. No one has done more to bring this about than men like Professor Muensterberg. "The most broadening this in life is travelling, the next best is to have a flower from foreign lands come...