Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...doubt that some men go to a university for the sake of playing on university teams, their education being made endurable only by this prospect. While we are legislating, therefore, we ought to exclude all men who come from the secondary schools solely for athletics. The difficulty is to find out who they are, as it is impossible to know the motives of a man when he registers. One thing that could be done would be to discourage the solicitation and procurement of athletes from preparatory schools by making a one year rule applicable to undergraduates. No first year...
...find that my name has been attached to a letter advocating the election of a certain candidate for a Senior Committee. I never saw nor signed such a letter. JOHN D. WILLIAMS...
...Sociology." He discussed at length the function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral and conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief in an eternal source of energy and life, reverence for the past all tend to strengthen one's faith in an ideal which makes rational moral action attractive...
...business or other disputes may be brought in suit and tried in the courts of the Republic, under judges elected from and by the citizens. Boys who perhaps have never associated idea of "law" with anything but the thought of a policeman who was to be hated and avoided, find themselves among the makers of law, with a personal interest in its proper enforcement and an understanding of what...
This code is elevated by such elements as work, student honor, family pride, love of country, love of nature, love of God, and lastly, love of man. President Eliot said this love of man is the ultimate idea of religion and that in it all the others find their expression...