Word: high
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type of man; though he must go before his followers he must not be detached from them, that is, he must be human. He should be to the masses what a motive is to the individual; he stirs them up to motion; he seeks out the undeveloped capacity of each man. The demagogue...
...consecrated in January, 1902. His work in the Philippines has been marked by the same simple, devout earnestness that had been shown in his stay in Boston, and he has been instrumental in building up the church among the natives and foreigners of the islands to a high point of efficiency...
...shooting team lost to the Boston Athletic Association at Riverside on Saturday afternoon by the score of 191 to 213, out of a possible 250. The silver cup, offered by the B. A. A. to the high-score Harvard man of the two shoots this fall, has been awarded to W. S. Brooks '10, who scored 84 out of a possible 100 in the two shoots...
...will also be the usual events, open to all amateur athletes, which are as follows: 40-yard dash, handicap; 40-yard dash, invitation, scratch; 45-yard hurdles, handicap; 300-yard dash, handicap; 600-yard run, handicap; one-mile run, handicap; 1000-yard run, handicap; two-mile invitation run, scratch; high-jump, handicap; 8, 12, and 16-pound shot-put, handicap; and 56-pound shot-put for height...
...fame so deathless? Because in youth he made one high resolve and carried it out. He came to this country in search of liberty of thought, and of speech. By that act he tied his name to the great love that lives in the human heart, the love of freedom. And when he came to die he started the great custom of giving his estate for the advancement of education. A stream of benefactions has followed that first gift of the sick young minister, a stream that is characteristic of the American belief in education. And a host of young...