Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...successful, its membership having steadily increased to the present total of 70 active members. It is equally divided into two "camps," led by captains "who choose the subjects for the weekly debates. An experienced upperclassman acts as critic and the subjects relate to College questions or current events. Thus far the "camps" have won equal numbers of debates. Next Wednesday the election of officers for the second half-year will be held...
...standpoint, I venture to say that we are losing that mediaeval habit of dreaming of the celestial opportunities of day-after-tomorrow. Immortality as revealed by our faith, should mean a man's living now, not that he is going to live at some future time. I count it far better to deserve immortality and not to have it than to have it and not deserve...
...far does the earning power of skill obtain under a regime of trade unions...
...exact than ever before, and it will become broader. The real work of scholars is to lay bare the problems of life and to show us the courses to be pursued. We are apt to take for granted the free institutions of this country; but we have now progressed far enough to see that we shall be required to struggle to maintain our political greatness. We threw away our great advantage of political isolation by taking the Philippines; we have changed the Constitution for external policy, and will soon find the Constitution inconvenient for internal policy. Problems like these...
...closing, Mr. McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...