Word: inasmuch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...five lectures on "Political Engineering" yesterday afternoon. He explained that in the field of industry and mechanics, our civilization is in keeping with our idea of the twentieth century, because scientific methods of Investigation have been applied. In the field of ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy to obtain happiness as to manufacture the most common product...
...Inasmuch as a subscription of this sort never includes all who might subscribe, while the music is for the enjoyment of all members of the Dining Association, the cost of the music could very properly be added to the general expenses of the Hall. The trouble of collecting many small amounts would thus be avoided, while the charges distributed in such a way would not add appreciably to the individual bills of members...
Although the work of the undergraduate committee of the Harvard Mission during the past year has been more quiet than usual, the year has, nevertheless, been one of missionary interest. At the first meeting of the committee held last fall it was voted that inasmuch as Mr. E. C. Carter '00 had returned to this country, the committee devote its efforts towards raising money to send a man to China to investigate conditions for establishing a Harvard School of Medicine. The plan for establishing such a school was first presented by Mr. M. A. Edwards...
...competitors in most of the events are unusually well matched this year and some extremely close finishes are expected. It is hard to pick any particular events as features, inasmuch as all will undoubtedly be of the highest class. While few records are likely to go, many will be closely approached. A number of last year's point winners will compete, but their chances of scoring again can hardly be based on their performances a year ago, because of the extremely bad weather conditions that prevailed at the time...
This afternoon the University team will play the last game of its schedule with Cornell at Ithaca. Inasmuch as Cornell has lost to Columbia and Columbia in turn has been defeated by Harvard, a victory for the University team in today's game will give Harvard the championship of the Northern Intercollegiate League. If the team loses, it will be tied for the championship...