Word: fours
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned...
Teaching Treated Under Four Heads...
...speak to you with reference to the claims of teaching as a profession, and I propose to treat it under the four following heads: first, in its relation to the student life; second, in its relation to the outside world; third, comparatively, how does this profession rank with other professions which may engage your attention? fourth, and last, what are some of the inward satisfactions coming from this profession, which I think are sufficiently great to attract men to it? Because in this, as in any other profession which we undertake, everything depends upon our being peculiarly qualified...
Compulsory production is most effective when mechanical. Negative consumption creates an excess of happiness or unhappiness, which we call, respectively, tastes and needs. Positive consumption tends to simplify tastes; luxuries are required only by those who have no resources in themselves. Spontaneous consumption is the most useful of these four useful acts. Production is being pursued as an end in itself. When a means is mistaken for an end, that end is sacrificed for the means. The ultimate end must be seen all the time. Less attention should be paid to wealth and more to happiness...
Such a conference as was held yesterday by President Hadley, President Lowell, Mr. Camp, and Mr. Haughton is significant of a new spirit entering into football affairs. That the game is in such a condition that reform is needed has been apparent to all; that four men representing the interests which these men represent should start the reform, is a very hopeful sign for the future...